Conagra Brands · 1 month ago
AI Solutions Engineer
Chicago, Illinois
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$81K/yr - $118K/yr
5+ years expConagra Brands is a company with a rich heritage in food production, and they are seeking an AI Solutions Engineer to prototype, launch, and scale user-facing workflows that deliver value across their commercial organization. This role involves turning business use cases into working pilots, iterating with partners, and moving solutions into production while ensuring quality and accuracy.
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Responsibilities
Build and ship fast: Prototype, iterate, and take to production multi-step agentic workflows that solve real business tasks such as information gathering, trend synthesis, and opportunity sizing. Translate use cases into clear flows using platform building blocks and connectors and deliver grounded outputs with citations
Own the experience: Design prompts and task flows and create simple chat or UI surfaces where needed. Integrate results back into business systems. Write clean, maintainable code, and optimize application latency, reliability, and cost
Shape the build plan: Contribute to a practical generative AI backlog with AI Strategy, sequence work, and de-risk ideas with quick proofs before scaling
Ground outputs in data: Use retrieval over governed sources. Design prompts and simple checks so answers are accurate, attributable, and include citations
Validate and raise quality: Build simple evaluation tests for each task, monitor task success and citation coverage, catch hallucinations and data leakage, and fix regressions quickly
Partner with the platform team: Build reusable agentic solutions on shared tooling, maintain end-to-end observability with traces, logs, and metrics, and meet weekly with IT on a shared backlog to align priorities and shape the platform roadmap
Lead with code: Drive projects end to end. Write production-quality code, review pull requests, and set engineering standards
Partner to production: Work with Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, IT Enablement, and product and business partners to move pilots to scale with clear SLAs and handoffs
Document and enable reuse: Publish patterns, components, and starter projects so new pilots launch faster
Stay current and pragmatic: Track useful advances in Large Language Model (LLM) tooling and retrieval and adopt improvements that demonstrably help outcomes
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience
Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Proven experience leading AI projects end to end with hands-on software engineering and code development, from prototype to production
Proficiency in Python, SQL and at least one of Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C# (.NET)
Shipped at least one AI application that uses retrieval over enterprise data with citations
Hands-on with agent frameworks such as Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, or LangChain, composing tools and functions into multi-step workflows
Strong API design and system integration skills
Experience with embeddings and vector or hybrid search such as Azure AI Search, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, FAISS, or Pinecone
Comfortable building lightweight UIs or simple chat experiences when needed
Solid engineering practices in testing, monitoring, reliability, and basic cost and latency optimization
Excellent analytical thinking, problem solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration
Benefits
Comprehensive healthcare plans
Wellness incentive program
Mental wellbeing support
Fitness reimbursement
Bonus incentive opportunity
Matching 401(k)
Stock purchase plan
Career development opportunities
Employee resource groups
On-demand learning
Tuition reimbursement
Paid-time off
Parental leave
Flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role)
Volunteer opportunities
Company
Conagra Brands
Conagra Brands is a packaged foods company that offers food products and a variety of other food items.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
David Marberger
Executive Vice President & CFO
Carey Bartell
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
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