AI Software Engineer-Planta Ford Irapuato
Irapuato, Mexico9h ago
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Key details
- Location
- Irapuato, Mexico
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Mid level
- Experience
- 3–6 yrs
- Function
- Software engineering
- Focus area
- AI / ML
- Posted
- 9h ago
Skills
About the role
The AI Software Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and
maintaining AI-enabled software applications that support business and manufacturing
operations. The position works closely with AI Architects, Data Engineers, Manufacturing
Teams, and Digital Transformation leaders to build intelligent solutions using Machine
Learning, Generative AI, cloud technologies, and enterprise data platforms.
This role contributes to the development of scalable AI software products, data pipelines,
APIs, and predictive models while supporting deployment, monitoring, and continuous
improvement activities. The AI Software Engineer serves as a key contributor to Industry 5.0
and Industry 6.0 initiatives, helping transform operational data into actionable business
insights through innovative AI-driven solutions.
Main Responsibilities
AI Software Development
Develop AI-enabled software applications and intelligent business solutions.
Build and maintain Machine Learning and data processing pipelines.
Develop APIs and backend services that support AI products and digital
applications.
Participate in software architecture implementation following engineering
standards and best practices.
AI Model Development & Deployment
Support the development, training, testing, and deployment of Machine Learning
models.
Assist in implementing Generative AI solutions and Large Language Model (LLM) use
cases.
Monitor model performance, accuracy, and reliability in production environments.
Support MLOps processes including model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle
management.
Data Integration & Analytics
Integrate manufacturing, operational, and enterprise data sources.
Perform data preprocessing, cleansing, validation, and transformation activities.
Maintain data quality, consistency, and accessibility across platforms.
Support business intelligence, analytics, and dashboard development initiatives.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
Collaborate with AI Architects, Data Engineers, Manufacturing Teams, and Business
Stakeholders.
Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and technical reviews.
Contribute to digital transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.
Support troubleshooting, incident resolution, and software maintenance activities.
Innovation
Research emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and industry trends.
Support proof-of-concept (PoC) and pilot projects involving AI and advanced
analytics.
Recommend software, data, and process improvements that enhance operational
performance.
- Software Engineering: Expert in modern programming languages, clean code practices, SOLID principles, design patterns, concurrency, refactoring, technical debt management, Git workflows, and large-scale system development.
- AI Application Development: Builds solutions using LLMs, prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool/function calling, RAG architectures, embeddings, vector databases, and AI agent frameworks.
- LLM Engineering: Understands transformer architectures, tokenization, context management, model selection, inference optimization, fine-tuning techniques, and deployment of both open-source and commercial models.
- AI Agents & Automation: Develops intelligent agents with memory, state management, tool integration, workflow orchestration, human-in-the-loop controls, security boundaries, and enterprise integrations.
- Machine Learning & Data Engineering: Applies practical ML techniques, develops training and inference pipelines, manages structured and unstructured data, and creates reliable data processing ecosystems.
- API & System Integration: Connects applications through REST, GraphQL, gRPC, event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, authentication systems, and enterprise services.
- Cloud & Platform Engineering: Designs and deploys solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP using containers, Kubernetes, serverless services, managed databases, monitoring, and security controls.
- MLOps & LLMOps: Implements CI/CD pipelines, model lifecycle management, experiment tracking, automated evaluations, monitoring, version control, and controlled releases.
- Testing & Evaluation: Ensures quality through unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, AI workflow, and model evaluation testing, including hallucination detection and regression analysis.
- Security & Governance: Applies secure coding practices, OWASP standards, agent security controls, prompt injection protection, data privacy safeguards, and access management.
- Observability & Performance: Monitors systems using logging, tracing, metrics, cost tracking, and optimization techniques to maximize reliability and efficiency.
- System Design & Architecture Support: Designs scalable components, evaluates technical trade-offs, identifies risks, documents decisions, and aligns implementations with enterprise architecture.
- Troubleshooting & Operations: Diagnoses and resolves application, infrastructure, model, and production issues through systematic root cause analysis.
- Technical Leadership: Mentors developers, performs code reviews, owns critical components, leads technical initiatives, communicates risks effectively, and drives engineering excellence.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information
Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related field.
Certifications in AI, Cloud Technologies, Data Engineering, or Software
Development are a plus.
Experience
3+ years of experience in software development, Artificial Intelligence, Machine
Learning, or related technical roles.
Experience developing cloud-based applications and enterprise software solutions.
Experience working with Python and AI/ML frameworks.
Experience integrating APIs, databases, and cloud services.
Basic understanding of DevOps and MLOps practices.
Experience in manufacturing, Industry 5.0, or smart factory environments is
preferred.
Technical Skills
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Machine Learning Model Development.
Deep Learning Fundamentals.
Generative AI Concepts.
Large Language Models (LLMs).
Model Training and Evaluation.
AI Solution Deployment and Monitoring.
Programming & Software Development
Python Development.
Object-Oriented Programming.