AI Solutions Lead (4906)

United States

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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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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