Senior AI Engineer – Agentic AI Platform

Join Johnson Controls to help build an enterprise Agentic AI Platform that enables intelligent AI agents to automate and enhance business workflows across the organization.

You will design, build, and scale AI-powered solutions that combine reasoning, knowledge retrieval, and enterprise system integration while helping to define standards and best practices for AI engineering, governance, and platform development.

How You Will Do It

• Design and deploy AI agents and agentic workflows that solve real business problems.
• Build RAG and knowledge retrieval solutions using enterprise data sources.
• Integrate AI solutions with APIs, business applications, and data platforms.
• Establish standards for AI evaluation, monitoring, security, and governance.
• Optimize AI solutions for quality, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with engineers, data teams, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to team members.

Required Capabilities & Skills

AI Solution Design

• Ability to translate complex business challenges into scalable AI solutions.

• Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving capabilities.

• Experience designing and deploying AI or machine learning solutions in production environments.

Generative AI & Agentic Systems

• Experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications.
• Hands-on experience with RAG, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, and agentic workflows.
• Ability to evaluate and improve AI system performance and reliability.

Software & Data Engineering

• Strong Python development skills.
• Strong SQL and data management skills.
• Experience integrating AI solutions with APIs, enterprise systems, and cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.

Business & Leadership

• Ability to communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives, mentor team members, and work effectively in fast-changing environments.

Preferred Skills

• Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure AI Search.
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar technologies.
• Vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-based architectures.
• MLOps, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and AI governance.
• Experience building reusable AI platforms or enterprise-scale AI solutions.

Transferable Backgrounds

We welcome candidates with backgrounds in AI engineering, generative AI engineering, applied AI, machine learning engineering, AI platform engineering, software engineering, solution architecture, MLOps engineering, data science, or cloud engineering. Candidates should be able to demonstrate hands-on experience in building and deploying AI or machine learning solutions in production environments.

Success in This Role

Success in this role requires the ability to translate business challenges into scalable AI solutions, adapt to evolving technologies, and deliver measurable business outcomes. We are open to candidates from a variety of technical backgrounds who can demonstrate hands-on experience in building and deploying AI or machine learning solutions in production environments.

What We Offer

• Help build Johnson Controls' enterprise Agentic AI Platform from the ground up.

• Solve complex business challenges using cutting-edge AI technologies on a global scale.

• Access the latest AI tools, cloud platforms, and enterprise datasets.
• Receive dedicated learning support, including sponsorship for Azure and AI certifications.

• Opportunity to influence AI strategy, architecture, and engineering standards.
• Technical leadership and mentorship opportunities.
• Flexible hybrid working model and collaborative team culture.

Our salary and benefits

The initial basic salary for this position will range from €2,700 to €4,215 per month, plus a 13th-month salary after your first six months in the role. The final package will reflect your experience, skills, and qualifications relevant to the position. We are committed to fair, equitable, and gender-neutral pay practices.

• At Johnson Controls, your work comes with benefits that support both your career and your wellbeing.
• Meal vouchers fully covered by the company.

• A flexible benefits budget with access to more than 3,500 options, including a MultiSport card and medical and wellness services.

• Extra savings through retail and lifestyle discounts (Benefit+).

• An allowance for private kindergarten or nursery expenses to support your family.

• Flexible working hours and home office days.

• Support for language courses, professional development, and wellbeing.
• On-site benefits, including massages, fruit, yoga, psychological support, health-focused initiatives, and employee events such as volunteering and branding activities.
• Seniority benefits, including an additional monthly financial allowance, medical care and support, and a wellbeing day.
• Relocation support, including a housing allowance, if you are moving to Slovakia.

About Us

Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, helps customers use energy more productively, reduce carbon emissions, and operate with the precision and resilience required in rapidly expanding industries such as data centers, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and higher education.

For more than 140 years, Johnson Controls has delivered performance where it matters most. Backed by advanced technology, lifecycle services, and an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-world results, and help move society forward.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion and believe that different perspectives make us stronger. By encouraging open dialogue and valuing individuality, we strive to be one of the most desirable places to work.