Staff Engineer
thermofisher
Job Description
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand business objectives, workflows, and pain points
- Discover and prioritize high-value AI Business use cases with measurable impact
- Translate business requirements into scalable solution architectures using existing reusable capabilities
- Select the most appropriate AI models (LLMs, SLMs, multimodal, domain-specific) based on use case, performance, cost, and latency
- Design Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, including vector databases, indexing strategies, chunking, embedding models, and retrieval patterns
- Identify and compose the right platform components, reusable services, tools, APIs, and agentic building blocks
- Configure and orchestrate agents, multi-agent workflows, memory, tools, and enterprise integrations
- Integrate enterprise data sources, knowledge repositories, and external systems securely
- Optimize prompts, reasoning workflows, model parameters, and inference strategies for accuracy and performance
- Validate solutions through prototypes, pilot deployments, and business acceptance testing
- Drive solution adoption from Private Preview to General Availability (GA)
- Monitor solution effectiveness, collect operational and business feedback, and continuously optimize deployments
- Capture reusable patterns, reference architectures, and best practices to continuously enhance the agentic AI platform
- Collaborate with platform engineering teams to identify capability gaps and influence future platform evolution
- Able to understand, articulate, and challenge the requirements
- Guides design activity to other programmers on technical aspects relating to the project
- Proactively looks for ways and patterns to continuously automate feature testing with measurable and tangible goals
- Is authentic, transparent, and leads by example, holding self and others accountable. Inspires, motivates, and collaborates with others
- Anticipates needs and problems while creating solutions. Is willing to ask difficult questions and take risks. Greets challenge and change as opportunity
- A highly motivated fast learner who can self-start and “figure out what needs figuring out”
- Actively participates in development community of practices in sharing and learning standard processes, leads initiatives within the community , and is involved in other organization initiatives
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to effectively document artifacts and processes and then explain them to others