Senior AI Engineer

Panasonic Automotive is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to build, ship, and operate production AI applications and agentic systems. This is an individual contributor role: you write the code, own the services you build, and raise the engineering standard for AI work across the organization.

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

• Build and ship LLM-powered applications and agents, including orchestration, tool calling, memory, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Build RAG pipelines: ingestion, chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and retrieval quality measurement.
• Develop MCP servers and tool integrations that connect agents to enterprise systems and data with per-tool authorization and OAuth-based agent identity and delegated access.
• Build evaluation suites (including LLM-as-judge and step-level agent evals), tracing, and monitoring for model and agent behavior; use them as release gates and to catch regressions.
• Tune prompts, context, and model selection for quality, latency, and cost; manage routing across small, frontier, and reasoning models, with fallback, through an LLM gateway.
• Implement guardrails against prompt injection, data leakage, and unsafe tool actions, with audit logging.
• Build and maintain APIs and backend services around AI components, with containers, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Operate what you ship: monitor, debug, and improve AI services in production.
• Use AI coding assistants and agents to raise your own delivery speed, and share working patterns with peers.
• Write clear technical documentation, and mentor engineers through code review and pairing.

MUST HAVES:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building LLM, RAG, or agent-based systems that reached production
• Strong Python; working knowledge of TypeScript or another backend language
• Hands-on with LLM APIs and open-weight models, function calling, structured outputs, multimodal inputs, and agent frameworks (for example LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or similar)
• Experience with vector or hybrid search and embeddings.
• Experience building LLM evaluations and observability (for example OpenTelemetry-based tracing, Langfuse, or LangSmith).
• Experience building and deploying services on AWS, Azure, or GCP with Docker and CI/CD.
• Working knowledge of secure API design, authentication (OAuth/OIDC), and data privacy.
• Daily use of AI coding assistants in your own workflow.
• Experience with MCP or A2A agent interoperability.
• Experience with Kubernetes, model serving, or fine-tuning (for example vLLM, LoRA).
• Experience integrating with enterprise applications, identity/SSO, and data platforms
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001).
• Public technical work or open-source contributions in AI systems.

BENEFITS & PERKS - WE'RE ALL ABOUT YOU:

• Great Medical/Dental Benefits
• Company-Matched 401K Retirement Savings
• Annual Bonus Program
• Educational Assistance
• Relaxed Dress Code
• PASATalks Speaker Summits
• Leadership & Mentorship Programs
• High5 Reward Recognition Program
• Onsite Happy Hours
• And many more benefits & perks found within the ‘Our Culture’ section…

WHO WE ARE:
At Panasonic, our technology and engineering expertise delivers innovation across diverse industries. It's all about the consumer experience and making sure that we find ways to enhance that experience, either through audio enhancements or through safety enhancements inside the vehicle.

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (PASA) is an industry-leading global supplier to Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) for infotainment systems and advanced connected car solutions. Our clients include Ford, GM, Chrysler, Daimler, Fiat, Tesla, Honda, Toyota.

WE TAKE OPPORTUNITY SERIOUSLY:
Panasonic is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with our without reasonable accommodations.

Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. Thank you for your interest in Panasonic Automotive Systems of America.