Senior AI Engineer

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

** CREATING ESSENTIAL CHEMISTRY THAT THE WORLD NEEDS*
* At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive.
That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry.

Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible.  In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high-performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high-quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure---sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry.

Chemours is seeking a  
** Senior AI Engineer
** to join our growing AI & Data Science team. This is a remote role and will report directly to the Head of Data Science & AI.

The role will identify, solution, build, and launch GenAI products & traditional apps in all areas of the company, including Manufacturing, Legal, Finance, R&D, Supply Chain, and Sales.

You'll join a highly collaborative team that values speed and quality of execution, putting a high volume of high-impact ML models/GenAI agents into production. As a Senior AI Engineer, your experience as a mentor and your ability to developing clean, scalable code efficiently will be valuable as our team grows.

Successful candidates will be able to thrive in a fast paced, ambiguous environment with a continuous learning mindset.  Role will also require heavy stakeholder/end-user engagement throughout the scoping & build process.

Must be able to work US eastern time zone working hours, typically 7:30am - 5pm.

** The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:*
* + Identify, design, and integrate Generative AI solutions into existing business workflows to deliver measurable value

+ Design, architect, implement, and product ionize traditional software applications and GenAI agents.

+ Partner with users and stakeholders to scope the use case, gather requirements, establish success criteria, and deliver an intuitive, high-quality UX.

+ Lead high-impact initiatives across multiple business functions, including Manufacturing, Legal, Finance, R&D, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Sales.

+ Mentor & help accelerate the work of junior developers; foster collaboration and teamwork and pair-programming culture.

+ Collaborate with related teams (ie. Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Data Engineering, Office 365) to go thru approvals, architecture, security & governance reviews.

+ When assigned to an opportunity, you will lead end-to-end delivery.

+ You will serve as product owner to define and maintain a phased roadmap, incorporating continuous user feedback, backlog prioritization, and release planning into your recommendations.

+ Lead software development from design through deployment.

+ Communicate progress to non-technical but key stakeholders on a proactive & regular basis.

+ For existing codebases, address technical debt and build scalable, reusable architectures that are well documented and conform to security and compliance standards.

+ Manage the full lifecycle of deployed applications, including debugging, enhancements, upgrades, and continuous improvement driven by user feedback and evolving technology.

** The following is*
* ** _required_*
* ** for this role:*
* + Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

+ 8+ years advanced backend development with Python AND Java script

+ 2+ years designing, coding (in Python), and deploying custom and complex GenAI solutions and multi-agent GenAI systems in production. We need to see evidence beyond building simple recommender systems or chatbots.

+ Minimum 2 years UI & frontend development with React.js, Typescript, and HTML

+ Strong hands-on experience designing and building GenAI architectures and multi-agent systems, including embeddings, advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques, and a variety of search architectures. Candidates should be able to clearly articulate solutions they have built using hybrid search, agentic search, vector search, and full-text search architectures.

+ Demonstrated experience developing, deploying, and evaluating GenAI solutions, with a strong understanding of evaluation frameworks (evals) and a proven ability to optimize the cost-to-performance ratio of production AI applications.

+ Strong proficiency with Pydantic models, including knowing when and how to leverage them to design robust, scalable, and maintainable GenAI architectures and workflows.

+ Excellent English…