Lead AI Engineer
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
Your role is important and below are some of the fundamental job duties that make your work unique.
What your day-to-day will be like:
- Build API, MCP Servers, AI agents, and LLM Interactions using Python, FastAPI, LangChain, or Strands.
- Develop full stack web applications using React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, vitest, and TestingLibrary on the front end.
- Design and implement scalable cloud applications using AWS services such as S3, EKS, Elasticache, Bedrock, AgentCore and Guardrails.
- Build observability using Datadog and Splunk.
How you will collaborate with others:
- Propose initial UI/UX concepts and flows and iterate based on feedback from Product and UX teams.
- Work with security and legal teams to evaluate AI Assistants and maintain them.
- Work with software engineering teams to adapt the tools to Hilton codebases by implementing custom instructions, custom agents and agent skills.
What deliverables you will take ownership of:
- Partner with delivery managers, software engineers and other team members to translate requirements into technical solutions, participating in sprint planning, design reviews, and architecture discussions
- Guide the implementation of AI agents for developer productivity and customer experience use cases, including designing API integrations, building evaluation pipelines, and establishing best practices for agent workflows.
- Production deployment, monitoring and support for AI and Agentic use cases.
WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT
You have these minimum qualifications:
- Five (5) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
- Two (2) years of work experience in Generative AI-driven solutions.
- Two (2) years of experience engineering AI solutions in UI development, API configuration, or platforms support
- You have a learning mindset and will become proficient in new technologies, based on the team's needs.
- This is a hybrid role and would require to be near one of our three US office locations (McLean, Dallas, Memphis)
- Travel up to 5%
It would be useful if you have:
- Bachelor's Degree, or Associate's Degree plus 7+ years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus 9+ years of Technology related experience
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab)
- Experience with a no-sql databases such as elastic cache or open search.
WHAT IT IS LIKE WORKING FOR HILTON
Hilton, the #1 World's Best Workplace, is a leading global hospitality company with a diverse portfolio of world-class brands. Dedicated to filling the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, we have welcomed more than 3 billion guests in our more-than 100-year history. Hilton is proud to have an award-winning workplace culture and we are consistently named among one of the World’s Best Workplaces. Check out the Hilton Careers blog and Instagram to learn more about what it’s like to be on Team Hilton!
We provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position and provide other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us if you require an accommodation during the application process.