AI Engineer

The AI Engineer will build and deploy practical AI applications that improve commercial performance—including quoting, pricing, pipeline management, capacity planning, and forecasting.

 This role is focused on the front end of the business, partnering directly with Sales, Finance, and Operations leadership to turn data into faster, better decisions. This role will build solutions that are embedded in daily workflows and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Work Mix:

• 50–60%: Build and maintain AI applications (Databricks-based)
• 40–50%: Work directly with sales, finance and operations

Core Responsibilities

• Partner with Sales, Finance, and Operations to identify high-value AI use cases.    (e.g. opportunity summaries and next best actions, guided quoting and pricing guardrails, similar deal insights and recommendation engines, pipeline and forecast intelligence dashboards, deal books, forecasting and SIOP inputs, guided quoting and pricing guardrails, market and opportunity summaries, daily sales TOC dashboard)
• Build and deploy AI-enabled applications using Databricks
• Integrate data across CRM, CPQ, ERP, and contract systems
• Embed tools directly into commercial workflows (not standalone dashboards)
• Lead pilots end-to-end (design → test → launch → sustain)
• Train users and drive adoption within real business routines
• Ensure accuracy, governance, and compliance (AS9100 / ITAR / DFARS)
• Align with Corporate and Division IT on AI standards and controls
• Report measurable improvements in revenue, margin, and forecast performance

Qualifications

Experience

• 3-6 years developing complex applications
• 2+ years of AI experience

• Experience with CRM and/or CPQ systems strongly preferred
• Experience supporting commercial or revenue operations is a plus

Technical Skills

• Required: Databricks (SQL, Delta Tables, Unity Catalog)
• AI capabilities: LLM APIs, prompt engineering, RAG workflows
• Strong SQL and Python (or equivalent)
• Familiarity with APIs, Git, and application deployment

Working Style

• Strong business translator—turns commercial problems into scalable solutions
• Effective with:
• Drives adoption—not just delivery
• Focused on building tools that are actively used and that deliver P&L results

Work Environment

• California based – Los Angeles or Orange County
• ~25% travel for sales engagement, working sessions, and deployments
• Travel intensity higher during build/launch phases

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.