> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Construction AI Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8264fec4260272a9 Kokosing, Inc. posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Westerville, OH with no pay posted. Build production AI systems that connect intelligent workflows, copilots, and agentic applications to construction operations and enterprise systems. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Kokosing, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/kokosing-inc) First seen Oct 24, 2026 · open on Workday as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted Westerville, OH On-site Build production AI systems that connect intelligent workflows, copilots, and agentic applications to construction operations and enterprise systems. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F8264fec4260272a9&placement=top) - [View posting at Kokosing, Inc.](https://kokosing.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Kokosing_External_Career_Site/job/Westerville-OH/Construction-AI-Engineer_R-102162) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) Travel **Up to 20%** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Internal teams - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** hands-on software engineering or AI/ML engineering Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Westerville, OH. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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Kokosing (www.kokosing.biz) is one of America's 50 largest General Contractors and services a broad spectrum of clients in both the private and public business sectors. Kokosing's services include heavy civil/industrial construction such as highways, bridges, underground utilities, water/wastewater facilities, and marine construction. For over 75 years, Kokosing has successfully attracted the most qualified technical personnel in the construction industry by offering visible challenges, superior quality, and attractive rewards. With over $2.8 billion in annual sales and a commitment to its workforce, Kokosing is the winning team. ### Job Description Kokosing is seeking a ** *Construction AI Engineer***. This individual will serve as a strategic partner between Technology and Innovation (T&I), IT, and business units to support the implementation of intelligent tools, copilots, and agentic workflows to automate processes and solve real-world problems in the construction industry in alignment with organizational objectives. This individual will bridge the gap between software development and practical/applied AI, integrating predictive models and Generative AI into live project execution and enterprise operations. The Construction AI Engineer will report to the ** *Director of Construction Technology and Innovation ***and have daily interaction with operational leaders and the IT department. ### Organizational Culture The Construction AI Engineer will embody and reinforce the organization’s core cultural values, including: - **Customer-focus** - We are passionate about building long-term customer relationships (internal and external). Our culture allows us to respond to our customers with turnkey solutions and quality results. Our goal is to exceed expectations safely and securely. - **Shirt-sleeve management** - We believe “None of Us is as Smart as All of Us”. We have a leadership mindset that together we can accomplish anything. We collectively roll up our sleeves and deliver quality results safely, and on time. We don’t just watch someone dig the hole; we jump in to help them start digging it. - **Financially strong** - We make decisions for the long term. We analyze risk and implement smart strategies that allow us to reinvest profits back into the company and secure resources that help make us a better construction partner and industry leader. - **Innovation mindset** - Innovation is a key focus of our organization and embodies both our cultural mindset in optimizing our business and being a leader in the community and the nation. ### Key Responsibilities This role focuses on translating business and field needs into working solutions - from intelligent workflows and copilots to agentic-based tools and AI-enabled applications for the construction sector. You will develop robust systems that function reliably within the high-stakes, risk-management environment of physical construction. Together, we will build and deliver practical AI solutions that drive automation, productivity, and business value. - **Build AI Agents & Automations:** Design and implement intelligent workflows using LLMs, function calling, agentic AI and multi-agent patterns, and retrieval architectures. - **System Integration:** Integrate AI capabilities into enterprise systems and field applications (e.g., Procore or Autodesk) to support real-world adoption and measurable value. Partnering with engineers and analysts working on safety, operations, scheduling, and risk to turn agentic capabilities into tools Superintendents, PMs, & PEs use. - **Testing & Evaluation:** Build rigorous evaluation infrastructure, golden datasets, and testing harnesses for non-deterministic AI systems to guarantee reliability and compliance. - **Data Management:** Work with structured and unstructured construction data, building retrieval systems that span vector search and knowledge graphs over complex project data. - **Stakeholder Collaboration:** Partner with domain experts (project managers, superintendents, and safety directors) to refine requirements and turn agentic capabilities into usable daily tools. - **Model Governance:** Ensure AI solutions meet corporate standards for security, privacy, and responsible AI practices. ### Qualifications & Skills - **Education:** Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field. - **Experience:** 5+ years of experience in hands-on software engineering or AI/ML engineering, with a proven track record of shipping AI-enabled applications in a production setting. - **AI & Orchestration Tools:** Hands-on experience with AI frameworks for orchestration (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or LlamaIndex). - **Programming & Cloud:** Strong Python engineering fundamentals and experience with major enterprise cloud platforms and vector databases (e.g., Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Palantir). - **Construction Knowledge:** Knowledge of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) technology stacks, Digital Twins, or Building Information Modeling (BIM) is highly preferred. - **Communication:** Excellent ability to present technical goals and non-trivial concepts to non-technical audiences ### Location - This role will be based at our corporate office in Westerville, Ohio and will require travel 20% of the time. Kokosing is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action federal and state contractor. The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class. [View posting at Kokosing, Inc.](https://kokosing.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Kokosing_External_Career_Site/job/Westerville-OH/Construction-AI-Engineer_R-102162) ## About Kokosing, Inc. A family-owned construction group delivering self-performed heavy civil, industrial, transportation, water, marine, pipeline, and materials work across the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and wider U.S. 2000–5000 people ## Similar jobs [Wrapbook](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/wrapbook) ### [Senior Software Engineer II, Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/84d3481afca0230c) US Remote 3w ago $183,000–$283,500 [Citigroup](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/citigroup) ### [AI Engineer – Startups & Partnerships](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fdacae14abfd3654) Jersey City, NJ 3w ago $142,320–$213,480 [Ercot](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ercot) ### [Applied AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8cab7d1c3519b6e3) Taylor, TX Hybrid 5w ago $145,000–$200,000 [Crowe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crowe) ### [AI Technical Lead](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/09376e25483dddb4) Chicago, IL · Washington, DC · +35 more Hybrid 2w ago $102,400–$204,100 [Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/jones-lang-lasalle-jll) ### [Forward Deploy Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/adb58e1e1a50fa0b) Chicago, IL · San Francisco, CA Remote 3mo ago $220,000–$320,000 - [Compare senior FDE salary ranges](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior) - [Similar jobs that build for teams inside the company](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?role=internal-deployment) Hiring at Kokosing, Inc. and want this page changed or removed? 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