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cBEYONData + SMX is seeking an AI Solution Lead - Hands-on Delivery to lead a small AI cell that enables and accelerates AI adoption across multiple project teams (e.g., business exploration/requirements, community transformation, delivery teams). You will listen to each team’s needs, translate them into a cohesive set of AI objectives and KPIs, and then build and promote reusable patterns (templates, automations, reference solutions) that teams can adopt. This is a player/coach role: you will still build—hands-on—while coordinating and influencing across the program.
Responsibilities
- Cross-team AI enablement: Partner with other team leads to understand needs, identify opportunities, and remove blockers
- AI objectives & KPIs: Define and socialize practical AI objectives (e.g., cycle-time reduction, quality improvements, adoption) and establish KPIs/measurement approaches; refine them as teams learn.
- Use-case intake & prioritization: Run an intake process (lightweight) to capture ideas, size effort, assess risk, and prioritize work for the AI cell (and recommend what other teams can implement independently).
- Reusable solution patterns: Create repeatable AI building blocks: prompt/playbook standards, RAG patterns, governance checklists, evaluation approaches, and “how-to” guides.
- Hands-on delivery: Build and ship select high-impact AI workflows/automations—especially those that require shared data access, deeper integration, or higher governance.
- Palantir Foundry-centered implementation (preferred): Where applicable, implement AI workflows and data patterns in Palantir Foundry and help teams use those patterns effectively.
- Community of practice: Facilitate a simple cadence (show-and-tell, office hours, examples library) so multiple teams can share learnings and scale adoption.
- Guardrails & risk partnership: Coordinate with security/data owners to ensure safe use (data classification, access controls, auditability) and provide guidance to teams implementing AI.
- Change enablement: Promote successful use cases, publish quick wins, and drive adoption through training, comms, and “starter kits.”
Required qualifications
- Demonstrated performance in a solution delivery roles (data/automation/software), including applying AI/LLMs in production or enterprise settings.
- Demonstrated hands-on capability: prototype → harden → operate.
- Strong understanding of applied LLM patterns (prompting, RAG, tool use, evaluations, safety/guardrails).
- Experience working through influence across multiple teams and stakeholders (setting standards, aligning on metrics, enabling adoption).
- Strong communication and facilitation skills (turn ambiguity into workable plans and artifacts).
- 8 total years of experience + Bachelor’s degree (some substitutions accepted)
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Palantir Foundry (pipelines, Ontology, Workshop/Contour, operational workflows).
- Experience in regulated environments (auditability, least privilege, data governance).
- Familiarity with ERP/business workflows (SAP or similar) and/or process transformation.
- Practical experience establishing measurement for automation/AI programs (adoption, time saved, quality, risk).
Success looks like (first 90 days)
- Stakeholder map + listening tour completed; clear, shared understanding of where AI helps each team most.
- A published set of AI objectives and KPIs with lightweight measurement and reporting.
- A working intake/prioritization process and an initial backlog with owners (AI cell vs. distributed teams).
- 1–2 reusable “starter” solutions shipped (templates/patterns + at least one production workflow) and adopted by at least two teams.
Application Deadline: January 31, 2026
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At SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission. From priority national security initiatives for the DoD to highly assured and compliant solutions for healthcare, we understand that digital transformation is key to your future success.
We share your vision for the future and strive to accelerate your impact on the world. We bring both cutting edge technology and an expansive view of what’s possible to every engagement. Our delivery model and unique approaches harness our deep technical and domain knowledge, providing forward-looking insights and practical solutions to power secure mission acceleration.
SMX is an Equal Opportunity employer including disabilities and veterans.
Selected applicant may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification.
SMX does not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).
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