As a 100% Employee-Owned company, Robert E. Mason & Associates, Inc. believes our Associates are the foundation of both our customers’ and our success. Our strong company culture, and belief in continued investment in our Associates, has helped us realize long Associate tenures, as well as long lasting relationships with our customers. Under the Robert E. Mason & Associates, Inc . umbrella there are two divisions: R.E. Mason and Apperture Solutions .
Apperture Solutions is a technology independent, professional consulting, and implementation services firm. Apperture Solutions offers Data Enablement, Production Optimization, Operations Management, and Other Value-Added Services. Apperture Solutions partners with other providers to offer our customers the technologies and solutions that fit their needs.
What Apperture Solutions Offers Associates:
Apperture Solutions is a 100% employee-owned company that offers a comprehensive, industry leading benefits package to all eligible Associates:
Participation in the Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP)
Retirement plan, including a Safe Harbor contribution
Medical / Dental / Vision Insurance
Employer paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance
Generous paid leave options that include vacation time, sick leave, personal leave time, R.E. Mason Way Half Day, paid Jury Duty, and paid Bereavement Leave
Paid Parental Leave
Paid company holidays
Career Development Program
Retirement and Financial Wellness program
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Alternative/Hybrid Work Schedules
General Description
The Senior AI Engineer will design, build, and deploy secure, domain-specific AI solutions for industrial operations, including agentic applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), machine learning services, and workflow co-pilots. This role translates complex manufacturing and engineering requirements into practical, supportable products that connect operational data with modern AI capabilities across edge, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Specific Responsibilities
Lead the design and delivery of production-grade AI applications, including LLM agents, RAG systems, workflow co-pilots, and predictive or optimization services.
Translate manufacturing workflows, operating constraints, and user needs into well-scoped technical solutions in partnership with operations, engineering, OT, IT, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders.
Design agent architectures using frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph, including supervisor-worker patterns, REST or Model Context Protocol (MCP) interfaces, governed tools, and appropriate human approval points.
Develop enterprise retrieval solutions using embeddings, vector stores, semantic search, knowledge graphs, and structured operational content such as SOPs, logs, maintenance records, and engineering documentation.
Use contemporary AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, supported by evaluation datasets, test harnesses, guardrails, monitoring, and independent review of model behavior, generated code, and agent recommendations.
Design agent-ready data products that route requests appropriately across live edge data, hot time-series stores, and historical lakehouse data.
Integrate AI solutions with industrial and enterprise platforms, including OPC UA, MQTT/Sparkplug B, Unified Namespace architectures, SCADA/DCS data, Power BI, SharePoint, and custom applications.
Partner with data engineering teams on schema-versioned data contracts, contextualization, validation, and streaming integrations across Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Explorer, Databricks/Delta Lake, and ADLS Gen2.
Package and operate solutions as secure, containerized services for cloud, edge, on-premises, or regulated deployment environments; contribute to CI/CD, observability, and operational support.
Frame ambiguous industrial problems, evaluate alternative approaches, and advance promising concepts from rapid prototype to maintainable production capability.
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