Lead AI Engineer - T&T

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.

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What We Bring To The Table

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
• Wellbeing programs including Physical & Mental wellness
  
  

Required Experience

• 5–8 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years focused on AI/ML or LLM-based systems in production environments.
• Experience designing and deploying AI-powered applications in cloud-native Azure environments.
• Demonstrated experience building RAG pipelines and working with vector databases.
• Experience developing distributed, API-driven systems and integrating with enterprise platforms.
• Experience working within Agile product teams delivering iterative releases.
• Excellent communication skills and a desire to collaborate openly within a fast-moving team
  
  

Interpersonal Skills - leadership, interactions, communication, influence

Other Skills -

• Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph (Agents, Tools) and agent orchestration patterns.
• Practical implementation experience with MCP and A2A communication models.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Gemini and model integration strategies.
• Strong knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
• Experience with vector stores such as Azure AI Search and PGVector.
• Proficiency in prompt engineering, evaluation strategies, and structured output validation.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs and integrating external services.
• Experience with Docker and containerized deployment models.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with feature flag strategies, telemetry, logging, and monitoring.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases and distributed system patterns.
  
  

Preferred Experience -

• Experience designing multi-agent orchestration strategies across distributed systems.
• Exposure to performance and cost optimization strategies for LLM-based systems.
• Experience contributing to shared AI platform components or reusable internal frameworks.
• Familiarity with enterprise governance, security, and responsible AI considerations.
  
  

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.