AI Application Engineer

KION Group

AI Engineer designing and developing AI applications at KION to solve business challenges. Requires strong engineering skills and expertise in AI/ML fundamentals.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeAtlanta • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $133,125 - $204,125 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement scalable, production-grade AI/ML solutions based on AI use case requirements from internal customers.
Own agentic AI / ML system lifecycle from design to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Build and maintain software services to serve AI agents / ML models and integrate into KION’s software data ecosystem.
Write clean, maintainable, and high-quality code, ensuring alignment to industry best practices.
Develop and enforce best practices in system design, software architecture, API design and coding standards and security
Collaborate with data engineers and cloud engineers to establish AI/ML development environments for efficient model training, evaluation, streamline the model deployment process, including dependency and version management, and utilize cloud platforms (GCP preferred) when possible.
Collaborate with business and IT to develop GenAI based applications, supporting RAG, multi-agent, multimodal systems leveraging modern frameworks.
Build and maintain robust CI/CD workflows for AI/ML applications.
Partner with AI enablement teams across the organization as well as KION IT Cloud Infrastructure, AI Platform, and security and data privacy teams to ensure AI/ML capabilities align with IT framework and guidelines within KION.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related field.
3+ years of experience in AI / ML engineering, micro service and API development, or related fields.
Proven experience deploying and supporting agentic AI / ML models into production systems with SLA.
Strong experience with cloud platforms (preferably GCP) and related tools: Docker, Kubernetes, edge computing.
Experience working in agile development environments, delivering incremental enhancements that drive customer value.
Deep understanding of APIs, software integration, and system architecture in enterprise-scale environments.
Hands-on experience with GenAI application development and performance evaluation.
Working knowledge of common AI/ML algorithms, and LLMs (Large Language Models)
Proficiency in Python (preferred) or other general-purpose programming languages.
Familiarity with orchestration tools: LangGraph, Airflow, Kubeflow, etc.
Strong DevOps and CI/CD tools
Proficiency in cloud-based architecture and experience with infrastructure automation (Terraform, Kubernetes).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Pay Transparency
Global Opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI/ML engineeringmicroservices developmentAPI developmentcloud platformsPythonGenAI application developmentAI/ML algorithmsLLMsinfrastructure automationDevOps

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingagile developmentcustomer value focus

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer ScienceBS in Software EngineeringMS in Software EngineeringBS in AI/MLMS in AI/ML