Senior AI Solutions Engineer, Data Science, Penguin Random House (Open to Remote)

Penguin Random House is a leading publishing company with a Data Science team that develops recommendation systems, forecasting models, and AI-powered tools. The Senior AI Solutions Engineer will build, deploy, and operate LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, and integrations connecting AI systems to internal data and tools. The role also involves evaluating emerging AI technologies and advancing the team's AI engineering capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate LLM-powered applications and services (e.g. agentic workflows, retrieval/RAG systems, classification pipelines) over our catalog, sales, and operational data
• Stand up and maintain MCP servers and tool integrations that connect AI models and assistants to our internal data and systems safely and reliably
• Own services end-to-end: architecture, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and monitoring in our AWS/Databricks environment
• Evaluate emerging AI tooling and patterns (agent frameworks, MCP, evaluation harnesses, new model capabilities), run structured pilots, and lead adoption of what works
• Raise the team's AI engineering capability: run working sessions and internal demos, pair program with scientists, and build internal tools to help accelerate AI usage across the team