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The position sits at the intersection of AI systems, developer platforms, and operational excellence, driving the design and rollout of intelligent, automated pipelines that move beyond static CI/CD toward predictive, self-healing, and data-driven execution. The focus is on replacing high-cost manual processes with scalable AI-powered mechanisms, improving end-to-end quality and velocity, and enabling reliable delivery across large, multi-team engineering environments. Success in this role requires operating at platform and ecosystem scale, setting architectural direction, and ensuring AI-enabled systems are secure, observable, governable, and resilient in long-lived production environments.\nIn This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:\nLead the design and delivery of AI-enabled solutions for building, test, and release workflows of software products using approved enterprise technologies and enterprise-ready solution patterns.\n\nIdentify engineering workflows that can be fully or partially offloaded to AI systems, reducing or eliminating repeated manual engineering effort.\n\nDesign and implement scalable AI-powered solutions in engineering workflows such as build and test triage, failure analysis, flaky test intelligence, debugging assistance, and release decision support.\n\nWork hands-on with engineering teams to turn ideas into working solutions that can be rolled out in production.\n\nOwn key initiatives from concept and architecture through development, rollout, validation, adoption, and ongoing improvement.\n\nHelp define technical direction, propose practical architecture improvements, and influence how AI is introduced into critical engineering systems.\n\nDevelop tools, supporting systems, and infrastructure that improve engineering productivity and enable sustainable AI adoption.\n\nReview technical designs and implementations, provide strong feedback, and mentor junior engineers.\n\nEstablish practical approaches for evaluation, telemetry, monitoring, observability, and continuous improvement of AI-enabled systems.\n\nDesign solutions that account for operational constraints such as rate limits, retry behavior, error handling, and production supportability.\n\nCollaborate with internal teams, domain experts, and junior talent to build solutions that can scale across the organization.\n\nEnsure all automation and intelligence align with Emerson’s reliability, safety, and regulatory commitments\n\nAct as a key technical leader, shaping the long-term roadmap for AI driven DevOps transformation across T&M.\nPartner with engineering leaders, architects, and operational teams to drive adoption of intelligent automation and data driven decision-making.\n\nMentor teams on AI/ML fundamentals, emerging practices, and how to leverage automation to enhance product quality and operational performance.\n\nWho You Are:\nYou are an application-focused AI engineering leader who enjoys solving real workflow and engineering problems.\n\nYou are comfortable operating as both an architect and a builder.\n\nYou can take an ambiguous problem, create a practical solution approach, and drive it through execution.\n\nYou understand what it takes to deploy systems at an organizational scale, including rollout, adoption, governance, observability, and long-term maintainability.\n\nYou work well across teams, influence technical direction, and help raise the capability of the engineers around you.\n\nYou are self-driven, pragmatic, and able to make sound trade-offs in evolving situations.\n\nFor This Role, You Will Need:\nB.E / B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA in Computer Science / Electronics / Electrical / Instrumentation / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / related technical discipline.\n\n8+ years of proven experience in software engineering, systems design, AI application engineering, or related technical roles. Minimum 3+ yearsexperience developing AI based applications.\n\nHands-on experience with retrieval-augmented generation architectures, workflow automation, evaluation methods, platform integration, agentic systems, cost-aware AI design, and operationalizing AI-enabled systems in production, including monitoring, observability, feedback loops, and lifecycle management.\n\nStrong understanding of AI training fundamentals, including how models are developed, adapted, evaluated, and improved, even if your primary industry experience has been in building and deploying AI-enabled applications rather than training foundation models directly.\n\nStrong experience building AI-enabled applications or workflow solutions in enterprise environments.\n\nStrong understanding of DevOps and modern software delivery systems, including CI/CD pipelines, build and release workflows, automation, observability, and production operational considerations.\n\nProven experience designing, deploying, and operating systems or workflow solutions on an organizational scale, including rollout across multiple teams or large engineering groups.\n\nStrong problem-solving ability, including diagnosing technical issues and proposing practical, high-quality solutions.\n\nGood understanding of enterprise constraints such as governance, approved technologies, security, observability, and production-readiness.\n\nAbility to work effectively with engineering teams that have deep domain expertise but limited AI maturity.\n\nPreferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:\nExperience applying AI to build systems, test systems, CI/CD workflows, release engineering, software delivery, and engineering productivity workflows.\n\nExperience with enterprise AI platforms, internal developer platforms, or similar shared engineering platforms used to operationalize AI solutions at scale.\n\nFamiliarity with Agile software development practices, CI pipelines, and workflow automation.\n\nUnderstanding of NI software tools or related internal engineering ecosystems.\n\nExposure to fine-tuning, model adaptation, data preparation, evaluation pipelines, or other AI training-related workflows.\n\nA strong track record of driving large, ambiguous technical initiatives to successful completion.\n\nAbility to work effectively in a diverse, multi-cultural engineering environment and communicate well with both engineering teams and management.\n\nWhy This Role Is Important:\nThis role is intended to bring external AI expertise into the organization and apply it in practical, high-value engineering workflows.\n\nThe focus is not on research alone, but on delivering enterprise-ready AI systems that save developer time, improve decision-making, and create reusable internal capability.\n\nThis is a Principal-level individual contributor role for someone who can influence architecture, build solutions hands-on, and help scale AI adoption responsibly.\n\nOur Culture & Commitment to You:\nAt Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives-because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.\nWe recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing competitive benefits plans, a variety of medical insurance plans, Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. 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