[Hiring] AI Engineer @J.D. Power

Role Description

You build the full-stack components that power Innovation Crew pilots and prototypes. Under the technical direction of the Principal AI Engineer, in close collaboration with the AI Experience Engineer, you write the backend services, API integrations, data connectors, and frontend implementations that turn AI architectures into working systems. This role has a high ceiling and a fast runway: you will be working alongside engineers at the frontier of AI application development, with hands-on exposure to frontier model APIs, agentic frameworks, Power Agents library development, and JD Power's core data infrastructure. You arrive with strong engineering fundamentals and a genuine appetite for AI systems. You gain deep, production-proven agentic engineering experience. In your first 30 days, you will have your first feature shipped inside a PoC sprint and the codebase oriented. By day 60, you will have your first Power Agents contribution reviewed and merged. By day 90, you will have full implementation ownership of at least one PoC component.

How we Build Agents:

The Innovation Crew builds alongside its own AI agent workforce. As AI Engineer, you will contribute to building and maintaining those agents:

• Writing the tool integrations, evaluation harnesses, and API connectors that give agents access to JD Power's data and systems.
• Learning to build for observability from day one - every agent pattern you ship is instrumented, testable, and inspectable.
• Contributing reliable patterns to the Power Agents library, where 400+ engineers & knowledge workers can build on it.

The Impact You Will Have in This Role:

Innovation Crew pilots only get built because the engineering work that underlies them gets done cleanly and quickly. You are the execution engine that turns architectural direction into working code:

• Building backend services that connect to Snowflake, API integrations that wire agent outputs to JD Power's core platforms, frontend components the AI Experience Engineer builds on.
• Contributing directly to the Power Agents library, meaning code you write will be used by engineers & knowledge workers across JD Power.

What You’ll Be Doing in This Role:

• Build full-stack features and components for Innovation Crew pilots under the technical direction of the Principal AI Engineer: backend services, REST APIs, data pipeline connectors, and frontend implementations.
• Integrate Innovation Crew builds with JD Power's core data infrastructure: Snowflake, internal APIs, cloud platforms, and the API Gateway.
• Contribute to Power Agents library development: implement new agent patterns, write tests, instrument traces, and document behavior.
• Contribute to the team's AI agent workforce: build tool integrations, evaluation harnesses, and observability instrumentation.
• Consume and configure frontier model APIs, agentic frameworks, and MCP server integrations as directed.
• Collaborate closely with the AI Experience Engineer to bring interface designs to life.
• Support intake technical scoping by mapping integration dependencies and participating in Emerging Technology evaluations.

Qualifications

• Full-stack engineering fundamentals across backend (REST APIs, cloud-native service patterns) and frontend.
• Genuine, demonstrable curiosity about AI systems.
• Clean, well-documented code and a fast-learning orientation.

Also Valued

• Python and/or TypeScript; experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent agent frameworks.
• RAG patterns, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate), and basic eval harness design.
• Observability basics: understanding of traces and logs, and why instrumentation is part of building.
• JD Power internal platform or API familiarity.

The Hiring Manager says:

“I am looking for someone with strong engineering fundamentals and a genuine hunger to apply them to AI systems. You do not need a five-year track record, you need to have built something real with an LLM, have clean code instincts, and be ready to learn fast alongside engineers who are working at the frontier.”

Salary Range

This position has a starting salary range of $115,000 - $130,000 USD / $95,000 - $115,000 CAD per year.

Our Values

• We POWER Our Customer’s Success.
• We are Innovative, Collaborative and Grounded in Data.
• We Make Things Easy.
• We Get It Done.
• We Start with Trust & Prove it Everyday.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

Applications

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where employment is offered. JD Power does not provide employment sponsorship for this position.