Lead AI Engineer
PepsiCo · Plano, Texas, US
Overview As a Forward Deployed AI Engineering Lead specializing in Agentic AI enablement, you will lead the design and delivery of production-grade agent cap...
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Overview As a Forward Deployed AI Engineering Lead specializing in Agentic AI enablement, you will lead the design and delivery of production-grade agent capabilities built on the enterprise AI Backbone across cloud and edge environments – across supply-chain and global functions. You will own end-to-end delivery of key agentic modules and integration patterns (MCP/tooling), establish strong evaluation and regression discipline, and drive adoption by embedding within transformation teams and BU and partnering with platform engineering and enterprise application owners. You serve as a technical anchor for the workstream—translating ambiguous business workflows into measurable agent outcomes, proactively identifying risks, proposing options/tradeoffs, and ensuring solutions scale across domains. Responsibilities: BU Facing Solution Architecture & Implementation - (40%): - Architect and deploy transformative AI agent solutions directly in client environments,adapting core technologies to unique client constraints and infrastructure. (Lead/Execute) - Rapidly customize agent patterns (tool integrations, enterprise system connections, security models) to solve high-impact business challe...