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About This Role
About Us:
A Fortune 500® company, EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME) is a leader in mechanical and electrical construction, industrial and energy infrastructure, and building services. EMCOR companies plan, install, operate, maintain, and protect the sophisticated and dynamic systems that create facility environments—such as electrical, mechanical, lighting, air conditioning, heating, security, fire protection, and power generation systems—in virtually every sector of the economy and for a diverse range of businesses, organizations, and government.
Job Summary:
The AI Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and supporting practical artificial intelligence solutions that improve business processes, increase productivity, and enable responsible AI adoption across EMCOR. This hands\-on role will build and integrate AI capabilities, including generative AI applications, automation workflows, retrieval\-augmented generation solutions, AI agents, and model\-enabled business processes. The AI Engineer will partner directly with EMCOR Operating Companies and corporate departments to identify use cases, develop reusable patterns, support implementation efforts, and help teams adopt AI capabilities in a secure, scalable, and supportable manner. This role will also work closely with the AI Security Engineer to ensure AI solutions follow approved security architecture, data protection requirements, governance processes, and responsible AI standards. This role reports to the VP of Information Technology and is fully remote.
Essential Duties \& Responsibilities:
The principal duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:* Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI\-enabled solutions that address business needs across EMCOR and its Operating Companies
- Build practical AI capabilities including generative AI applications, AI agents, workflow automation, document intelligence, natural language interfaces, and retrieval\-augmented generation solutions
- Partner with Operating Company leaders, corporate departments, and IT teams to identify high\-value AI use cases, define requirements, prototype solutions, and support implementation
- Create reusable AI solution patterns, implementation guidance, technical documentation, and reference examples that Operating Companies can adopt and extend
- Integrate AI capabilities with approved enterprise platforms, applications, APIs, data sources, and automation tools
- Develop and maintain prompt engineering standards, evaluation approaches, testing routines, and quality controls for AI outputs
- Work with the AI Security Engineer to ensure AI solutions meet EMCOR security requirements, including data protection, access control, logging, monitoring, prompt and response filtering, and approved architecture patterns
- Ensure AI solution development follows EMCOR Secure Software Development Lifecycle guidelines, including security requirements, design reviews, secure coding practices, testing, validation, documentation, and release readiness
- Support AI governance processes by documenting solution purpose, data sources, risks, controls, expected outputs, limitations, and operational ownership
- Monitor implemented AI solutions for performance, reliability, usage, cost, quality, and business value; recommend improvements as needed
- Stay current on emerging AI technologies, enterprise AI platforms, development frameworks, and implementation best practices; translate relevant advancements into practical EMCOR use cases
- Provide training, guidance, and practical support to EMCOR employees on the effective and responsible use of approved AI tools, including appropriate use cases, prompting and development, productivity best practices, and data protection requirements.
Qualifications:
- Five years minimum experience in software engineering, application development, data engineering, automation, or related technology implementation roles
- Two years minimum hands\-on experience developing or implementing AI, machine learning, generative AI, automation, or advanced analytics solutions
- Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, or SQL
- Working knowledge of generative AI concepts, large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval\-augmented generation, APIs, and AI solution evaluation
- Experience integrating applications, data sources, APIs, automation workflows, and cloud services
- Familiarity with Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, GitHub, M365 Copilot and Agents or comparable enterprise AI and development platforms preferred
- Understanding of data protection, access control, Secure Software Development Lifecycle guidelines, secure development practices, and responsible AI principles
- Ability to translate business requirements into practical technical solutions and explain AI capabilities, limitations, and risks to technical and non\-technical stakeholders
- Ability to effectively communicate and interact with personnel at all levels, including EMCOR executive management, operating company leadership, IT teams, Security, Legal, Risk, and other business users
- Must be capable of delivering a very high level of customer service
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As a leading provider of mechanical and electrical construction, facilities services, and energy infrastructure, we offer employees a competitive salary and benefits package and we are always looking for individuals with the talent and skills required to contribute to our continued growth and success. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Compensation Range: $135,000\-$168,000, depending on geography
Other Compensation: the position is bonus eligible
Benefits: We are committed to providing employees a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with health savings and flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability, a 401(k) Savings Plan, College Coach and employee assistance program.
Salary Context
This $135K-$168K range is below the median for AI/ML Engineer roles in our dataset (median: $175K across 2162 roles with salary data).
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About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 4,317 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 70% of the market. At EMCOR, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $214,900 based on 6,420 positions with disclosed compensation. Mid-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $194,400. This role's midpoint ($151K) sits 30% below the category median. Disclosed range: $135K to $168K.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($287,500) and Research Engineer ($272,100). By seniority level: Entry: $110,000; Mid: $194,400; Senior: $227,400; Director: $274,554; VP: $241,000.
EMCOR AI Hiring
EMCOR has 1 open AI role right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer. Based in Norwalk, CT, US. Compensation range: $168K - $168K.
Location Context
Across all AI roles, 15% (635 positions) offer remote work, while 3,657 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: New York (1,650 roles, $220,000 median); San Francisco (1,335 roles, $265,000 median); Los Angeles (708 roles, $214,112 median).
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 4,317 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 138 entry-level, 2,071 mid-level, 1,655 senior, and 453 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 15% of the market (635 positions). The remaining 3,657 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($287,500 median, 34 roles); Research Engineer ($272,100 median, 227 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($244,000 median, 23 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 4,317 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (3,004), Data Scientist (345), AI Software Engineer (309). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (138) are outnumbered by mid-level (2,071) and senior (1,655) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 453 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 15% of all AI roles (635 positions), with 3,657 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $215,000. Top-quartile roles start at $266,300, and the 90th percentile reaches $320,790. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $287,500 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $145,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (2,249 postings), Aws (1,224 postings), Azure (938 postings), Rag (915 postings), Gcp (660 postings), Pytorch (640 postings), Prompt Engineering (624 postings), Kubernetes (559 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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