Principal Engineer GenAI

Genuine Parts Company, founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading specialty distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts with over 10,000 locations and 60,000 employees globally. The GPC Global Technology Center in Krakow, established in 2022, is a research and development facility supporting GPC's digital transformation, focusing on advanced technologies like e-commerce, data platforms, supply chain solutions, selling systems, and cybersecurity.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant technical leadership across complex enterprise or distributed systems.
• Recent experience designing, delivering, and operating AI, machine learning, or generative AI solutions in production.
• Advanced Python skills and strong command of software architecture, APIs, testing, and maintainable engineering practices.
• Hands-on understanding of generative AI application patterns including retrieval, agentic workflows, model selection, prompt design, and evaluation.
• Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, containers, CI/CD, and production observability.
• Ability to incorporate security, privacy, responsible AI, and operational risk into technical designs.
• Proven ability to influence architecture and engineering decisions across multiple teams without formal authority.
• Clear communication skills to explain complex technical tradeoffs to engineering, product, business, and executive audiences.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related fields, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with generative AI frameworks, vector search, model-serving platforms, and enterprise data integration.
• Experience modernizing large-scale enterprise platforms or building reusable internal technology capabilities.
• Experience evaluating AI vendors, commercial models, open models, and total cost of ownership.
• Record of mentoring senior engineers or building technical communities of practice.

• Set and evolve the technical strategy, reference architectures, and engineering standards for enterprise generative AI solutions.
• Architect and build prototypes and production services using Python, APIs, cloud platforms, and modern software engineering practices.
• Lead the evaluation of foundation models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, and model or vendor options, including build-versus-buy decisions.
• Establish LLMOps and MLOps practices for evaluation, testing, versioning, deployment, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Embed responsible AI, data protection, security, and human-oversight requirements throughout solution design and delivery.
• Partner with business and product leaders to frame use cases, define measurable outcomes, and prioritize experiments based on value, feasibility, and risk.
• Integrate generative AI capabilities with existing applications, enterprise data, and business processes.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, mentor engineers across teams, and raise engineering quality standards.
• Monitor relevant advances in AI and machine learning and recommend adoption when evidence supports meaningful business value.
• Promote disciplined experimentation with explicit learning goals, evaluation criteria, and decision gates.

The position is located in Krakow with a hybrid work mode. Genuine Parts Company commits to equal employment opportunity without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.