Lead AI Engineer – Enterprise Data & AI

Hybrid

Posted about 2 months ago

Information Technology and Applications

Job Description

Zoox is seeking a highly motivated, hands-on Lead AI Engineer to spearhead the end-to-end development and deployment of our Enterprise Gen AI and LLM initiatives, building agentic workflows, integrating enterprise data sources, and enforcing identity-aware security, that transform operations across Procurement, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, HR and Manufacturing (MES).

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

Design and deploy production-grade LLM applications and intelligent agents capable of complex reasoning, secure tool usage and autonomous multi-step workflows.

Architect enterprise data/tool integrations using MCP servers, establishing standardized, reusable connectors across Procurement, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, HR and Manufacturing (MES).

Enforce security guardrails via AI gateways - authentication, rate-limiting, logging and policy compliance for all model/agent traffic.

Implement identity inheritance via SSO, ensuring agents act strictly within the requesting user's permissions & privileges (no privilege escalation, no standing overreach).

Work with the Information Security team on access control (RBAC/ABAC) for agentic systems and establish observability standards for agent behavior and data access.

Partner with cross-functional teams to build secure, code-driven AI automation.

Requirements

Qualifications:

8+ years in Data/Software Engineering, with 2+ years deploying GenAI/LLMs in production

Deep Python proficiency; experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex or provider-native orchestration (e.g., Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Assistants/Agents SDK or hand-rolled).

Hands-on experience building/integrating MCP servers or comparable connector frameworks.

Experienced in AI gateway solutions (e.g. Cloudflare AI Gateway) for governing agent traffic.

Working knowledge of SSO/identity federation (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0) and propagating identity through agentic tool calls.

Experience with cloud AI services (AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI) and vector databases (MongoDB, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, OpenSearch).

Bonus Qualifications:

Experience building AI solutions for corporate functions like Finance, Legal (e.g. contract analysis), HR (e.g. policy retrieval), Supply Chain (e.g. forecasting efficiency) or Manufacturing (e.g., MES data integration, production/quality analytics)

Familiarity with AI platform vendor evaluations (Bedrock, Vertex, Cortex, etc.)

Experience defining enterprise IAM integration patterns (Okta, Entra ID, Ping) for AI systems and establishing AI governance frameworks or centers of excellence

Previous experience in the autonomous vehicle, robotics or high-tech manufacturing sectors.

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Posted on: Jul 10, 2026
Job type: Full-time
Location: Foster City, CAHybrid

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