AI Implementation Lead

Industrial Manufacturing

AI Implementation Lead responsible for building agents, applications, and integrations. Collaborating to implement AI solutions and drive their adoption within the organization.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERPPythonTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

AI Solution Deployment: Build agents, plug-ins, applications, and integrations as use cases emerge from the Data Team's work and the partners it supports
Agent Development: Design and develop custom agents and agent harnesses, including MCP servers, orchestration logic, prompt engineering, and eval scaffolding. Agents are the centerpiece of the function.
Vendor AI Extension: Build on top of Salesforce Einstein, Tableau Pulse-AI, ETQ-AI, Fellow.ai, and the data-platform AI capabilities IEM brings on next
Solution Discovery: Run intake conversations with internal partners to surface high-value AI use cases, pressure-test feasibility against existing tooling, and prioritize the implementation roadmap
AI Governance and Security: Build with data leakage prevention, prompt injection mitigation, and model risk as first-class concerns, in alignment with IEM's broader AI policy framework
Adoption and Enablement: Train users, write documentation, and run enablement programs so the AI solutions you deliver get used by the people they were built for
Cross-Functional Delivery: Coordinate with the internal teams the Data Team serves through build and rollout, keeping stakeholders aligned as solutions move from idea to deployment
Documentation: Maintain design notes, integration docs, and runbooks for the AI solutions you deliver so the team can support and extend your work
AI-Assisted Development: Use modern AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor as part of your daily practice, setting the standard for the rest of the Data Team
Team Leadership: If filling the people-leader track, hire, coach, and grow a small team of AI engineers as the function scales
Engineering Standards: Participate in code reviews, follow Git workflows and CI/CD practices, and contribute to evolving the team's AI engineering conventions
Continuous Learning: Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape, bringing ideas back to the team and helping raise the bar over time

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years building AI or agentic systems used by a real organization
Direct experience building agents, plug-ins, or AI applications used in a real working environment, not coursework, prototypes, or POCs
Hands-on experience with modern agent tooling such as Claude Code, MCP (Model Context Protocol), LangGraph, Mastra, Pydantic AI, or comparable frameworks
Strong programming skills in Python, including async patterns, type hints, and testing
Working knowledge of large language model APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, or comparable), with hands-on prompt engineering, evaluation, and iteration on production prompts
Working knowledge of AI governance and security including prompt injection mitigation, data leakage prevention, model risk, and vendor review
Track record of driving adoption of AI or technical solutions with users outside the immediate engineering team
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders and to gather requirements from business users
Comfortable with Git version control, code review, and modern engineering workflows including CI/CD
Self-motivated with the ability to work independently in a remote environment while collaborating effectively across a distributed team
Preferred: People leadership experience including managing 2 to 5 engineers and running technical hiring
Preferred: Experience extending vendor AI platforms in the data and analytics ecosystem (Salesforce Einstein, Tableau Pulse-AI, BI vendors, vertical SaaS)
Preferred: Mid-market or operational and manufacturing context, vs. a purely big-tech background
Preferred: Familiarity with manufacturing systems such as Infor Syteline, ERP platforms, or shop floor and quality systems

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support our employees' well-being, growth, and long-term success
View a snapshot of our benefits at https://www.iemfg.com/careers

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythonasync patternstype hintstestingprompt engineeringevaluationiterationAI governancedata leakage preventionmodel risk

Soft Skills

strong written communicationstrong verbal communicationexplain technical conceptsgather requirementsself-motivatedcollaborate effectivelyteam leadershipcoachingdriving adoptioncross-functional coordination