Donaldson is committed to solving the world’s most complex filtration challenges. Together, we make cool things. As an established technology and innovation leader, we are continuously evolving to meet the filtration needs of our changing world. Join a culture of collaboration and innovation that matters and a chance to learn, effect change, and make meaningful contributions at work and in communities.
We are seeking a skilled Senior AI Developer to join our AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE) team drive enterprise-wide adoption of advanced AI technologies.
In this position, the position will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and operationalizing impactful AI solutions across customer engagement, knowledge management, e-commerce, market intelligence, and business operations. The candidate will lead the entire lifecycle of AI solution development, from initial design and architecture through deployment, governance, and integration, utilizing Generative AI, enterprise platforms, and agent-based architecture.
In this role the candidate will work closely with business teams, enterprise architects, data teams, and product stakeholders to design reusable AI frameworks, accelerators, templates, and best practices that can scale across the organization
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and deploy scalable AI agents and enterprise-grade AI/GenAI solutions tailored to business requirements.
Integrate agent capabilities into software applications and workflows via APIs and authorized platform interfaces.
Translate business needs into scalable AI solutions and architectural frameworks.
Foster development of reusable frameworks, templates, prompt libraries, and accelerators.
Support production readiness through monitoring, incident management, and model/agent behavior analysis.
Document solution functionalities, known limitations, and recommended usage practices.
Contribute to governance, scalability, and production readiness of AI solutions.
Mentor team members and assist in building internal capabilities across the AI CoE.
Maintain current knowledge of developments in AI, GenAI, and agent-based systems.
Construct AI-driven workflows employing prompt patterns, retrieval augmentation (RAG), semantic search, and agent-based architectures aligned with organizational standards.
Define and implement comprehensive evaluation methods including quality assurance, hallucination testing, safety/toxicity assessments, and robustness validation.
Travel:
- Up to 10% as required for business needs.
Minimum Qualifications:
Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
4-6 years of proven experience in software development, including API integration and production deployment.
Demonstrated expertise in Python, SQL, and enterprise AI application development.
Experience delivering GenAI solutions, encompassing prompting, retrieval augmentation, evaluation, and workflow integration.
Ability to collaborate effectively with platform, data, security, and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Azure AI (Foundry/SDKs) and Snowflake (Cortex AI).
Background in developing multi-step agents and production evaluation tools.
Familiarity with enterprise governance controls for GenAI (privacy, safety, auditability).
Experience optimizing inference costs/latency and implementing observability for AI features.
Professional Skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Capacity to thrive in agile, fast-paced environments.
Collaborative approach and leadership potential.
Commitment to continuous learning and skill development.
Effective task prioritization and project management across multiple initiatives.
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Skills Required
- Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 4-6 years of proven experience in software development, including API integration and production deployment.
- Demonstrated expertise in Python.
- Demonstrated expertise in SQL.
- Enterprise AI application development experience (designing and operationalizing AI solutions).
- Experience delivering GenAI solutions, including prompting, retrieval augmentation (RAG), evaluation, and workflow integration.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with platform, data, security, and business stakeholders.
- Experience with Azure AI (Foundry/SDKs).
- Experience with Snowflake (Cortex AI).
- Background developing multi-step agents and production evaluation tools.
- Familiarity with enterprise governance controls for GenAI (privacy, safety, auditability).
- Experience optimizing inference costs/latency and implementing observability for AI features.
Donaldson Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Donaldson Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Donaldson Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs like a 401(k) match, profit-sharing, and an employee stock purchase plan are positioned as meaningful components of total compensation. Company materials consistently frame retirement benefits within a broader Total Rewards offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program with mental‑health resources create a comprehensive health and wellbeing package. Healthcare is often characterized as decent and a core strength of the overall offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and paid parental leave are explicitly included, alongside other company‑paid leaves such as bereavement, jury duty, and military leave. Some locations highlight multi‑week PTO from the first year, underscoring breadth of leave options.
Donaldson Company Insights
What We Do
Donaldson Company helps solve some of the world's most complex filtration and contamination control challenges, and is one of the largest global providers of unique filtration technologies and high-quality filters and parts. Our filtration technologies and products are used every day, in a variety of industries and environments, including aerospace, agriculture, construction, food and beverage, manufacturing, mining, power generation, transportation and many more. Key to our success, our 14,000 employees support customers at sales, manufacturing and distribution centers from over 140 locations on six continents. The filtration market continues to grow. Customers' needs for filtration solutions continue to evolve. And the opportunities for our products and our people continue to expand.
