Sr Software Engineer

Johnson Controls is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on AI Engineering to join their Data Strategy & AI team. This role involves infusing AI capabilities into products through a collaborative approach across multiple business units. The AI Hub is dedicated to creating end-to-end enablers for streamlined AI/ML operations, from data strategy and discovery to model training, development, and deployment of AI services in both cloud and edge environments.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on Senior Software Engineer with industry experience, contributing to foundational AI/ML engineering with an emphasis on repeatability. You will collaborate with data scientists, platform/data architects, and domain experts to build enablers for productizing AI/ML models.

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply sound software engineering principles to deliver high-quality software for end-to-end AI/ML solutions that enhance building intelligence.
• Translate AI/ML customer features into well-defined AI Engineering requirements, delivering cohesive and high-quality responses.
• Utilize Generative AI frameworks for designing, developing, and implementing LLMOps for advanced generative artificial intelligence models, considering cost, latency, and multi-cloud support.
• Participate in a high-performance technical team, including backend, MLOps, LLMOps, and DevOps engineers, to create workflows for AI service development and deployment in the cloud and at the edge.
• Collaborate with Product and Data Science teams to understand and translate requirements into well-designed, modular components that accommodate data source variability and diverse deployment targets.
• Assist in evaluating vendors and technologies (open source and proprietary) and present recommendations for onboarding partners, automating ML workflows, model training, versioned experimentation, and digital feedback/monitoring.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated technical abilities.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer in Cloud Services or IoT.
• 2+ years of experience in UI development with Angular 16+, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• 3+ years of programming and object-oriented design experience in modern languages such as Python or Node.js.
• 2+ years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology.
• Experience building backend services on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with API-first design, considering security, authentication/authorization, logging, and usage patterns.
• Experience working with message brokers, caches, queues, and pub/sub concepts.
• Containerization experience using technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, or AKS.
• Knowledge of SCRUM/Agile development methodologies.
• Strong spoken and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical, or Computer Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer in Finance, Cloud Services, or IoT.
• 1+ years of experience collaborating with Data Scientists to productize AI/ML models.
• Experience developing LLMOps solutions for generative AI using frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Experience with developing conversational agents using Azure AI Services or similar cloud provider services.