Senior AI Engineer – Agentic AI Platform

About the role

Johnson Controls is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to help build its enterprise Agentic AI Platform, which enables intelligent AI agents to automate and enhance business workflows. You will design, build and scale AI-powered solutions combining reasoning, knowledge retrieval and enterprise system integration, while helping define standards and best practices for AI engineering, governance and platform development.

Key responsibilities

• 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 outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to team members.

Required profile

• Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI or machine learning solutions in production environments.
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into scalable AI solutions, with strong systems thinking and problem solving.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders and lead technical initiatives.
• Open to candidates from AI engineering, ML engineering, MLOps, data science, cloud engineering, solution architecture or software engineering backgrounds.

Required skills

• Generative AI and agentic systems: LLM-powered applications, RAG, prompt engineering, tool/function calling.
• Python and SQL; API and cloud integrations, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Preferred: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, agent frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, vector databases, MLOps, CI/CD, observability and AI governance.

What we offer

• Salary of EUR 2,700 to 4,215 per month, plus a 13th-month salary after the first six months.
• Sponsorship for Azure and AI certifications, and flexible hybrid working.
• Meal vouchers, a flexible benefits budget, retail discounts, childcare allowance and relocation support if moving to Slovakia.
• Flexible hours, home office days, language course support and on-site wellbeing benefits.