Sr. AI Engineer

Fieldpiece Instruments is hiring a Senior AI Solutions Engineer to build and deploy practical AI-enabled solutions across the organization. This is the first dedicated AI engineering hire, partnering closely with business teams to deliver measurable value through production-ready applications and automations. The role supports a hybrid schedule in Park City, UT and will move to Heber City, UT in 2027.

What you’ll do

• Partner with teams across Fieldpiece to understand workflows, pain points, and business needs, then identify opportunities where AI, automation, or improved technology can make a meaningful difference.
• Translate business requirements from concept to solution, including designing, developing, implementing, and supporting production-ready applications and automations.
• Build practical AI capabilities such as AI agents, copilots, workflow automations, and decision-support tools.
• Develop AI applications using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), enterprise knowledge systems, APIs, and agentic workflows.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise platforms including ERP, CRM, PLM, customer support, analytics, knowledge management, and productivity tools.
• Reengineer processes to improve speed, accuracy, quality, service, cost, revenue enablement, and employee productivity.
• Define testing and evaluation approaches to support accuracy, reliability, security, scalability, and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Information Systems, business leaders, data owners, and security stakeholders to implement appropriate governance and controls.
• Support user adoption of new AI tools and iterate continuously based on feedback and results.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend solutions based on business value, implementation requirements, cost, risk, and scalability.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, AI, or related fields.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of production applications.
• 2+ years building solutions with modern AI technologies, including large language models.
• Experience turning ambiguous business problems into practical technical solutions.
• Hands-on experience with prompt design, retrieval architectures, AI application testing, and model/system evaluation.
• Experience building AI agents, multi-agent systems, tool-using agents, RAG solutions, or complex agentic workflows.
• Experience integrating APIs, cloud services, enterprise applications, and data sources.
• Strong proficiency in Python (or another modern language used for AI development).
• Experience with data engineering, analytics, BI, MLOps/LLMOps, observability, or cloud deployment.
• Experience with source control, testing, deployment, monitoring, and modern software delivery practices.
• Excellent communication skills to work with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and explain complex decisions in business terms.
• A practical, curious mindset: you enjoy understanding how a business works, asking the right questions, and improving it with technology.

Technologies you’ll work with

Python, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, multi-agent systems, agentic workflows, APIs, ERP, CRM, PLM, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure, Copilot, Power Platform, Fabric, Dataverse, Microsoft 365, Azure OpenAI, MLOps, LLMOps, BI

Benefits at Fieldpiece

• Competitive base salary with an annual bonus opportunity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays
• Hire to Retire philosophy with Individual Development Plans and support for career development
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Health Savings Accounts (HSA), and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Music program with onsite guitar, piano, and voice lessons in California (streaming available for other offices)
• Recognition programs, launch parties, and team building events

Why this role matters

This position focuses on building and deploying AI solutions that go beyond evaluations and proofs of concept. You’ll work with business teams to understand goals and bottlenecks, translate needs into technical requirements, and then build, deploy, and improve solutions in production.

Projects vary, including workflow automation, AI agents, improved access to company knowledge, AI connected to enterprise systems, and decision-support applications. Fieldpiece is technology agnostic, with particular value placed on experience in the Microsoft ecosystem, including Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure, Copilot, Power Platform, Fabric, Dataverse, and Microsoft 365.

Even better if you have

• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or integrating solutions with ERP systems, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform, Fabric, or Dataverse
• Experience working in a product, manufacturing, distribution, or field-service environment
• Exposure to Lean, continuous improvement, or business process reengineering

How Fieldpiece works

As a privately held company, Fieldpiece invests for the long term in people, products, and future growth, emphasizing innovation, continuous improvement, and lasting careers.

Our culture is built around TURTL values:

• TRIBE – collaborate, support one another, and win as a team
• Upfront Homework – come prepared, start with the end in mind, and address obstacles with creativity, grit, and tenacity
• Right Stuff – deliver innovative solutions by seeing through the eyes of customers and using purposeful critical thinking
• Trust – build credibility, accountability, and transparency
• Lean – embrace curiosity, continuous improvement, learning from failures, and delivering results
• No Ego – value the best ideas regardless of where they come from, with humility, openness, and mutual respect