AI Solutions Engineer

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Reporting to the Director of AI Strategy, you will prototype, launch, and scale user-facing agentic workflows and solutions that deliver measurable value across Conagra’s commercial organization. You will turn business use cases into working pilots, iterate with partners, and move the right solutions into production. 

Your Impact 

• Build and ship fast: Prototype, iterate, and take to production multi-step agentic workflows that solve real business tasks such as information gathering, trend synthesis, and opportunity sizing. Translate use cases into clear flows using platform building blocks and connectors and deliver grounded outputs with citations. 

• Own the experience: Design prompts and task flows and create simple chat or UI surfaces where needed. Integrate results back into business systems. Write clean, maintainable code, and optimize application latency, reliability, and cost. 

• Shape the build plan: Contribute to a practical generative AI backlog with AI Strategy, sequence work, and de-risk ideas with quick proofs before scaling. 

• Ground outputs in data: Use retrieval over governed sources. Design prompts and simple checks so answers are accurate, attributable, and include citations. 

• Validate and raise quality: Build simple evaluation tests for each task, monitor task success and citation coverage, catch hallucinations and data leakage, and fix regressions quickly. 

• Partner with the platform team: Build reusable agentic solutions on shared tooling, maintain end-to-end observability with traces, logs, and metrics, and meet weekly with IT on a shared backlog to align priorities and shape the platform roadmap. 

• Lead with code: Drive projects end to end. Write production-quality code, review pull requests, and set engineering standards. 

• Partner to production: Work with Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, IT Enablement, and product and business partners to move pilots to scale with clear SLAs and handoffs. 

• Document and enable reuse: Publish patterns, components, and starter projects so new pilots launch faster. 

• Stay current and pragmatic: Track useful advances in Large Language Model (LLM) tooling and retrieval and adopt improvements that demonstrably help outcomes. 

Your Experience 

• 5+ years of experience. 

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 

• Proven experience leading AI projects end to end with hands-on software engineering and code development, from prototype to production. 

• Proficiency in Python, SQL and at least one of Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C# (.NET). 

• Shipped at least one AI application that uses retrieval over enterprise data with citations. 

• Hands-on with agent frameworks such as Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, or LangChain, composing tools and functions into multi-step workflows. 

• Strong API design and system integration skills. 

• Experience with embeddings and vector or hybrid search such as Azure AI Search, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, FAISS, or Pinecone. 

• Comfortable building lightweight UIs or simple chat experiences when needed. 

• Solid engineering practices in testing, monitoring, reliability, and basic cost and latency optimization. 

• Excellent analytical thinking, problem solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration. 

Number of Days in Office: 3 
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Compensation 

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement

• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan

• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement

• Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.