Senior AI Solutions Engineer

The role

This person will design, build, and support AI-enabled applications, integrations, and workflows. They will apply generative AI, programming, and automation to practical business needs across the organization.

What you will do

• Work with partners to identify and assess organizational needs that could benefit from AI
• Translate business needs into functional requirements and practical solution designs
• Design, build, test, deploy, document, and maintain AI-enabled applications, integrations, and workflows
• Apply AI capabilities such as classification, extraction, summarization, content generation, knowledge retrieval, question answering, and task completion
• Connect AI models with organizational systems and data using code, APIs, scripts, connectors, and low-code platforms
• Develop and test prototypes and advance successful concepts into production solutions
• Partner with departmental stakeholders to evaluate outputs for accuracy, relevance, consistency, cost, and suitability
• Improve reliability and safety through grounding, business rules, validation, exception handling, human review, and access controls
• Monitor and refine deployed solutions
• Explain AI capabilities, limitations, costs, and risks clearly

Required qualifications

• Relevant experience developing applications, integrations, automated workflows, or other technical solutions using generative AI tools, APIs, frameworks, or platforms
• Ability to translate business needs into working solutions and troubleshoot across applications, data sources, integrations, and AI services
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as JavaScript, Python, C#, or PowerShell
• Knowledge of APIs, webhooks, connectors, data formats, or low-code platforms
• Experience with prompt development, structured outputs, and evaluating AI solutions for accuracy, reliability, security, and suitability
• Working knowledge of application security, credential management, testing, logging, error handling, deployment, and source control practices
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

• Experience with document processing, retrieval-augmented generation, enterprise knowledge retrieval, agent workflows, or AI safeguards
• Familiarity with Microsoft enterprise technologies such as Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Azure AI, Microsoft Graph, or Entra ID and integrating enterprise business systems

Benefits

• 15+ options for medical insurance (with the Foundation paying 90 percent of the premiums)
• Competitive dental and vision plans
• 401(k) plan with 6 percent employer contribution
• Flexible spending accounts
• Employer paid life and disability insurance
• 18 Vacation Days
• 12 Well-Being (Sick) Days
• 2 Personal Days
• summer Fridays (office closure at 2pm)
• summer holiday week over July 4
• discretionary bonus on an annual basis
• staff and leadership cultivation through regular training courses and events

About the company

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research was founded in 2000 to accelerate meaningful therapeutic advances and a cure for Parkinson’s disease. It is the largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson’s disease research.