AI Engineer - Remote Role

About the Role

Southern Power is seeking an AI Engineer (Levels 5–7) to design, build, and evolve AI solutions that deliver measurable business and operational value. This role focuses on translating business use cases into production-ready AI agents, models, and workflows that meet enterprise architectural, governance, and operational standards.

You will develop scalable and safe AI solutions suited to a critical-infrastructure environment, working with architects, ML Ops teams, and business stakeholders throughout the AI delivery lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and configure AI agents that reason, plan, and act using models, tools, and enterprise data in alignment with approved patterns.
• Translate business and operational requirements into end-to-end AI workflows covering data ingestion, inference, tool execution, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Build safety controls, validation steps, and explainability mechanisms into agent logic and prompts.
• Collaborate with architects on design decisions and partner with ML Ops teams to support deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvements.
• Optimize prompts, models, and agent interactions to improve accuracy, latency, and cost efficiency.
• Prototype new AI capabilities while following standards that support their progression to enterprise-grade deployments.
• Use feedback, evaluations, and operational signals to continuously improve agent behavior and reliability.

Required Qualifications

• Experience building AI and machine learning applications in enterprise environments.
• Practical understanding of agentic AI concepts, including planners, tool-calling, memory, and multi-agent collaboration.
• Familiarity with enterprise data platforms and APIs, including structured, unstructured, and document-based data.
• Awareness of AI governance, risk, and compliance considerations in regulated environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to break down complex use cases into modular agent behaviors.
• Product-oriented mindset focused on tangible outcomes rather than experimentation alone.
• Ability to work within defined architectural and governance constraints.
• Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain AI behavior and limitations to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Python and AI frameworks for large language models (LLMs) and agents.
• Experience with prompt engineering, evaluation techniques, and structured outputs.
• Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
• Working knowledge of API integration and tool execution within agent workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD, model deployment, and observability concepts sufficient to work within established pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with Databricks.

Location & Work Arrangement

The role is based at one of the following locations:

• The Energy Center, Birmingham, Alabama.
• Ivan Allen, Atlanta, Georgia.

The work arrangement is four days in the office and one day remote.

Additional Screening Requirements

This position falls under the company's Insider Threat Program and involves access to and control over sensitive data, systems, or assets. Selected candidates will be required to complete enhanced personnel screening, including a background review, drug screen, and psychological assessment.