Prologis, Inc

Senior AI Applied Manager

Prologis, Inc$125K — $186K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, producing production-quality systems.
  • Expert in Python, focusing on architecture, testing, packaging, performance, and reliability.
  • Strong experience with AWS architecture and development (security/IAM, networking, serverless).
  • Solid foundation in data handling: SQL, modeling, APIs; adept at using RAG and text-to-SQL.
  • Proven use of hypothesis-driven experimentation and evaluation techniques.
  • Exceptional communication skills for both technical and business audiences; effective storytelling with results.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Drive AI innovation and rapid experimentation to enhance Prologis capabilities.
  • Design and execute time-limited pilots with defined hypotheses and success metrics.
  • Evolve existing AI patterns and standards with new methods based on measurable outcomes.
  • Create reference implementations and ensure successful experiments scale effectively with the Central AI team.
  • Develop secure, efficient, cost-aware architectures within the AWS ecosystem.
  • Present results through demos and reports that illustrate business impact and recommended strategies.
  • Evaluate emerging AI tools and synthesizing research into actionable insights for the company.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with a 50% company match up to 12% of eligible compensation.
  • Generous paid time off (22 days annually) in addition to holidays and volunteer time.
  • Wellness and financial benefits to support work/life balance.
Full Job Description

Job Title:

Senior AI Applied Manager

Company:

Prologis

A day in the life

In this role, you will explore and experiment with emerging AI techniques to establish new and evolve existing enterprise AI patterns. Your time will be spent designing and running hypothesis-driven pilots, evaluating results, and translating learnings into clear recommendations, reference architectures and next steps. You will collaborate closely with AI platform and delivery teams to transition successful approaches into scalable architectures. Along the way, you’ll communicate findings through demos and concise readouts that connect technical outcomes to business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive AI innovation and rapid experimentation to advance Prologis capabilities (agentic workflows, reasoning approaches, evaluation methods, and emerging techniques).

• Design and execute timeboxed pilots with clear hypotheses, success metrics, and kill/scale decision points.

• Enhance and evolve existing enterprise AI patterns and standards (e.g., retrieval-augmented generation, text-to-SQL, evaluation/observability, guardrails) using new approaches and measured outcomes.

• Build reference implementations and handoff documents so successful experiments transition into scalable architectures in partnership with the Central AI team.

• Develop within the AWS ecosystem using secure, observable, cost-aware architectures and strong software engineering practices.

• Communicate results through demos and concise readouts that connect technical outcomes to business value, tradeoffs, and recommended next steps.

• Support priority project work as cycles allow, focused on de-risking and acceleration with clear entry/exit criteria.

• Continuously evaluate emerging AI tools, frameworks, and vendor offerings; synthesize external research, OSS trends, and vendor capabilities into actionable recommendations for Prologis.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent), delivering production-quality systems.

• Expert Python skills (clean architecture, testing, packaging, performance and reliability).

• Strong AWS architecture and development experience (security/IAM, networking, serverless and/or containers, monitoring/logging, cost controls).

• Strong data foundations: SQL, data modeling, APIs/integration patterns; comfortable incorporating RAG and text-to-SQL patterns into real solutions.

• Demonstrated rigor in experimentation: hypothesis-driven approach, evaluation plans, metrics, timeboxing, and pragmatic decision-making.

• Ability to communicate clearly to both technical and business stakeholders; proven storytelling and influence through results.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent practical experience).

• Hands-on experience designing and interpreting LLM evaluations (task success, faithfulness, hallucination analysis, cost/latency tradeoffs).

• Familiarity with modern LLM application stacks across vendors, with an ability to reason about abstraction tradeoffs, portability, and long-term maintainability.

• Hands-on experience with agentic systems (tool use, memory strategies, multi-agent orchestration) and reliability/evaluation techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Dataiku (DSS), including building and operationalizing analytics/AI workflows; LLMOps experience is a plus.

• Experience building evaluation harnesses (golden sets, regression testing, error analysis) and partnering on risk/safety reviews.

• Exposure to OpenAI AgentKit/ChatKit and Apps SDK/MCP is a plus.

• Experience transitioning prototypes into enterprise-ready patterns in partnership with platform and delivery teams.

Hiring Salary Range of: $125,000 - 186,000. Salary and whole compensation package (bonus target) to be determined by the candidate’s location, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

#LI-TA1

All full-time roles in the US come with a robust benefits package which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents. Prologis also offers several other wellness, financial, and work/lifestyle-specific benefits. Our 401(k) retirement plan has a company match of 50% up to 12% of eligible compensation. We also offer generous PTO with a starting accrual of 22 days a year in addition to paid holidays and volunteer time. 

Employment Type:

Full time

Location:

San Francisco, California

Additional Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado, Los Angeles, California, Phoenix, Arizona

About Prologis, Inc

Prologis, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that specializes in logistics real estate. The company is the global leader in logistics real estate with a focus on high-barrier, high-growth markets. Prologis leases modern distribution facilities to a diverse base of approximately 5,500 customers across two major categories: business-to-business and retail/online fulfillment.
Learn more about Prologis, Inc
Size
2,053 employees
Market Cap
$104.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.4 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+13.4%
Revenue
$4.4 billion
NASDAQ

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