Senior AI Engineer

If you are a Senior AI Engineer looking for an opportunity to lead the delivery of production AI solutions, enable others, and advance the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence, Emerson has an exciting opportunity for you. 
Based in Bologna, you will partner across Emerson's global Pressure Management organization to turn complex business needs into secure, reliable, and scalable AI capabilities. 

This is a hands-on senior individual-contributor role spanning AI engineering, employee enablement, and the application of established AI governance. You will independently own complex and ambiguous AI initiatives from discovery through production support, make and communicate significant technical design decisions, and provide technical leadership through expertise, coaching, peer review, and influence rather than people management.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Lead the design, architecture, development, deployment, support, and continuous improvement of complex production AI solutions, including generative AI, agentic AI, and selected machine-learning or data-science applications.

• Translate complex or ambiguous business opportunities into solution architectures, delivery approaches, and production capabilities, using advanced judgment when information or precedent is limited.

• Own significant architecture and design decisions for assigned initiatives, evaluate technical alternatives and risks, and develop secure APIs, workflows, applications, integrations, and reusable components using approved enterprise capabilities.

• Advance engineering and DevOps practices across PRM AI solutions by developing reusable patterns, improving technical standards, leading critical peer reviews, and strengthening testing, deployment, documentation, monitoring, and operational support.

• Enable employees to use approved AI capabilities effectively and responsibly through training, demonstrations, prompt and use-case coaching, reusable guidance, and hands-on support across the global PRM organization.

• Assess technical, operational, and responsible-AI risks; operationalize established Emerson and PRM governance requirements; and guide teams through architecture, privacy, cybersecurity, compliance, testing, documentation, review, and production-readiness decisions.

• Influence global business and technical stakeholders, coach other engineers, review complex work, and promote reusable practices that raise AI engineering quality and accelerate responsible delivery across PRM.

Who You Are:

You analyze multiple and diverse sources of information to define complex problems accurately before moving to solutions. You make sound decisions, even when information is incomplete or precedent is limited. You relate comfortably with people across levels, functions, cultures, and geographies, adapting your communication to build alignment. You seek new approaches, share expertise, and support the development of others while maintaining accountability for high-quality results.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Demonstrated experience independently leading the design, architecture, delivery, and production support of complex AI, machine-learning, or AI-enabled software solutions.

• Strong software-engineering capability in a modern programming language, with experience designing secure APIs and integrations and applying source control, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment controls, and production observability.

• Hands-on experience developing generative and agentic AI solutions using patterns such as grounding and retrieval, structured outputs, tool or function use, workflow orchestration, evaluation, safety controls, and human oversight.

• Experience making significant solution-architecture and technical-risk decisions across enterprise cloud or AI platforms, business applications, data sources, and workflows.

• Experience operationalizing security, privacy, responsible-AI, documentation, quality, governance, and monitoring requirements throughout the solution lifecycle.

• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical approaches, explain complex decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and influence delivery across a global organization.

• Experience providing technical guidance through peer review, coaching, reusable engineering practices, or cross-functional collaboration while remaining accountable for hands-on delivery.

Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:

• Experience with Microsoft Azure AI services or Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, and the Microsoft Power Platform.

• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot or other approved development assistants, and enterprise AI adoption or enablement.

• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, agent orchestration, prompt and model evaluation, observability, or MLOps/LLMOps practices in production environments.

• Experience applying traditional machine-learning, data-science, data-engineering, Power BI, or Microsoft Fabric capabilities where they are appropriate to the business problem.

• Experience delivering AI or automation solutions in industrial, manufacturing, engineering, or another complex enterprise environment.

• Experience working across globally distributed or matrixed teams and developing reusable technical standards, reference patterns, or shared components.

• Experience mentoring engineers, leading complex peer reviews, or guiding teams through architecture, governance, and production-readiness decisions.

Our Culture and Commitment To You:

At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.

Our compensation philosophy is simple: we pay a competitive base salary, within the local market in which we operate, and reward performance during our annual merit review process. The salary range for this role is 42.000 to 77.000 EUR annual total compensation commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role. This position is covered by the National Collective Labour Agreement for the Metalworking Industry (CCNL), which defines the salary structure and related career progression paths https://www.assolombarda.it/servizi/assistenza-sindacale/informazioni/informazioni/ccnl-metalmeccanici

About Us

WHY EMERSON

Our Commitment to Our People

At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.

We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.

At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.

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