AI Solution Engineer

Overview

As part of AECOM’s AI Engineering team, you translate ideas into validated AI concepts that unlock real-world impact on infrastructure and buildings. You balance technical feasibility with business value to shape AI opportunities and prototypes. You work across engineering, product, and domain experts to deliver MVPs and production-ready solutions. This role blends startup agility with the resources of a global firm to drive sustainable, measurable outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package
• career development programs
• remote work options
• flexible work options
• well-being resources
• retirement savings plan

Responsibilities

• Identify and shape AI opportunities across the business
• Assess feasibility by balancing technical capability, business value, and complexity
• Design and build prototypes, demos, and MVPs
• Translate problems into structured approaches and PRDs
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and domain experts
• Explore emerging AI models and tools
• Support the lifecycle from concept to production handover
• Operate flexibly across demos, prototyping, and exploration
• Run demos, support operational challenges, explore LLM capabilities, join workshops, and build PoCs/MVPs when needed

Key requirements

• Degree in computer science, software engineering, innovation/entrepreneurship/technology or related field or equivalent experience
• Background in AI, engineering, data, product or consulting
• Understanding of AI/LLM capabilities and limitations, and familiarity with AI tooling (LLMs, APIs, MCPs, RAG systems)
• Ability to build prototypes using Python, web frameworks, and related tools, with understanding of idea-prototype-production lifecycle
• Experience translating ideas into structured approaches or prototypes and communicating trade-offs

• Experience with senior stakeholders to shape solutions
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving
• Python
• Web frameworks
• AI tooling (LLMs, APIs, MCPs, RAG systems)

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