AI Agent Engineer, AI

Ford Motor Company is hiring an AI Agent Engineer to build and improve AIR, an AI system that helps plant teams investigate and resolve production issues. The role develops agents and workflows grounded in manufacturing data, evaluates their performance, and works with plant supervisors and engineers to ensure recommendations are useful and reliable.

Responsibilities:

• Build agents that classify issues, plan investigations, call tools, and draft recommendations
• Design multi-step and multi-agent workflows with clear hand-offs and stopping rules
• Write and maintain prompts, tool definitions, and retrieval logic
• Connect agents to production, quality, and maintenance data and to CoreMesh, ATP's manufacturing ontology and knowledge graph, which gives plant data one shared meaning across systems and plants
• Rank and filter evidence so agents reason on the right sources, and show those sources in every output
• Have agents flag low confidence or missing data and hand off to a person
• Test agents against the shared evaluation sets before each release, and add cases from plant experts
• Analyze failures, compare approaches, and improve accuracy, cost, and response time
• Turn user feedback and confirmed fixes into better agent behavior
• Spend time with supervisors and engineers at Kentucky Truck Plant to see how problems really get solved