Innovation Engineer
Location
California + 2 moreAll locations: California, Colorado, Massachusetts
Posted
121 days ago
Salary
$104.8K - $163.1K / year
Postgraduate Degree5 yrs expExperience acceptedEnglishAzureCloudJavaJava ScriptNode.jsPythonPy TorchTensorflow
Job Description
• Design and implement agentic AI systems, including single-agent and multi-agent architectures, for applications in water infrastructure, forecasting, optimizations, and operations.
• Collaborate with ML/AI leads to integrate LLMs and autonomous agents into existing and new solution pipelines.
• Contribute to the development of exploratory prototypes and production-ready tools that leverage agentic reasoning, planning, and collaboration.
• Support the MLOps lifecycle, including model tracking (e.g., MLflow), deployment, and monitoring within Azure DevOps and Databricks environments.
• Translate domain-specific challenges into scalable AI solutions, working closely with water engineers and project teams.
• Stay current with emerging research and tools in Machine Learning, agentic AI, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent systems.
• Document methodologies, share learnings, and contribute to internal knowledge bases and Communities of Practice.
Job Requirements
- Master’s+ degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
- 5+ years total professional experience
- 1+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning and AI development
- Familiarity with LLM frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, OpenAI APIs)
- Strong programming skills with Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, and cloud-based ML platforms (preferably Azure)
- Skills in multiple languages (e.g., Java, Node.js) is a benefit.
- Understanding of MLOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, model versioning, and monitoring.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
- Experience or interest in water systems, environmental modeling, or Microsoft Azure SDKs such as AI Foundry is a plus.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Wellness program
- Health savings accounts
- Flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) plan
- Employee stock purchase program
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short-term/long-term disability plans
- Emergency travel benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional membership fee coverage
- Paid family leave
- Ten paid holidays in each calendar year
- Vacation between 10 and 20 days per year
- Paid sick leave