Generative AI Engineer

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.

Role Overview
We are seeking an AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable LLM-powered solutions leveraging AWS cloud services, Snowflake, and modern GenAI frameworks. This role focuses on building production-grade AI systems, optimizing LLM inference, and integrating enterprise data platforms with cutting-edge AI technologies.
The ideal candidate combines strong cloud engineering expertise with hands-on experience in prompt engineering, foundation models, agentic AI systems, and data pipelines within Snowflake and AWS ecosystems
Key Responsibilities
AI & Generative AI Development
•    Design, develop, and deploy LLM-powered applications and agentic AI systems in production environments.
•    Implement advanced prompt engineering strategies including:
•    Prompt chaining and multi-turn orchestration
•    Few-shot learning and in-context learning
•    Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and Tree-of-Thought (ToT) prompting
•    Function calling and tool use optimization
•    Structured output generation (JSON, XML schemas)
•    Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems integrating Snowflake data with LLMs.
•    Evaluate and fine-tune foundation models via AWS Bedrock or other managed AI services.
•    Develop guardrails for AI systems including hallucination mitigation, grounding, and safety controls.
•    Implement LLMOps best practices for model lifecycle management:
•    Model versioning, deployment, and rollback strategies
•    Prompt versioning and experimentation frameworks
•    Monitor and observe LLM application performance using observability tools.
•    Evaluation frameworks for LLM outputs
Cloud & Platform Engineering (AWS)
Architect scalable AI solutions using AWS services such as:
•    Bedrock - Sagemaker – Access and fine-tune foundation models
•    Lambda – Serverless LLM application deployment
•    EC2 – GPU-accelerated inference and batch processing
•    Step Functions – Orchestrate complex LLM workflows and agentic pipelines
•    CloudWatch – Monitoring, logging, and alerting for AI systems
Data Engineering & Snowflake Integration
•    Build and optimize data pipelines between Snowflake and AI services.
•    Design feature stores and embeddings pipelines using Snowflake.
•    Leverage Snowflake's Cortex LLM functions for in-database AI operations.
•    Implement vector search and semantic search capabilities.
•    Work with structured and unstructured enterprise data.
•    Ensure data quality, governance, and security.
•    Optimize Snowflake queries for AI workloads and cost efficiency.
AI Application Development
•    Build APIs and backend services to operationalize AI solutions.
•    Integrate LLM/AI systems into internal applications, sales tools, or analytics platforms.
•    Implement streaming and real-time inference for low-latency AI applications.
•    Collaborate with stakeholders to translate use cases into production AI systems.
Required Qualifications
•    5+ years of experience in AI/ML, Software or Data engineering.
•    Proficiency in Python with solid understanding of ML fundamentals
•    Strong hands-on experience with AWS, APIs and microservices architecture
•    Experience integrating AI solutions with data systems like Snowflake.
•    Practical experience with prompt engineering
•    Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or similar
•    Experience with agentic frameworks (AutoGen, CrewAI, or equivalent).
Preferred Qualifications
•    Experience building RAG pipelines in enterprise environments.
•    Knowledge of MLOps best practices.
•    Experience with vector databases and embeddings.
•    Familiarity with model evaluation frameworks (e.g., LLM eval metrics).
•    Experience implementing AI governance and responsible AI practices.
•    Background in sales, media, marketing analytics, or enterprise data platforms (a plus).

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.

Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.

Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.

TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year. 

* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

EEO statement:

TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email [email protected] 

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