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AI Solutions Engineer roles sit squarely in STEM OPT territory: employers must be enrolled in E-Verify, and your STEM degree unlocks the 24-month extension beyond your initial 12-month OPT period, giving you up to 36 months of work authorization to build your U.S. career in AI.
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Get Access To All JobsDivergent is a technology company that has architected, invented, built, and commercialized an end-to-end factory system called the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) that comprehensively uses machine learning to optimally engineer, additively manufacture, and flexibly assemble complex integrated vehicle structures and subsystems. Products created using DAPS are superior in performance, lower in cost, rapidly customizable to meet mission and customer-specific requirements, faster to market, and scalable on demand to high volume production. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs, and Divergent is now expanding to support mission critical needs in the Aerospace and Defense sector. Join us to be a part of this transformative journey, where your impact will shape the future of technology and production.
Purpose
We are looking for an AI Solutions Engineer who not only builds cutting-edge generative-AI systems but also serves as the AI Enablement lead for the organization. You'll design, develop, and productionize large-language and multimodal model solutions while dedicating a significant portion of your time to help teams adopt AI responsibly and effectively.
The Role
Help Build & Deploy AI Solutions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate and optimize generative AI solutions into products and processes.
- Develop domain specific AI software using RAG and Agentic AI.
- Collaborate with the data engineers, product teams, people operations, and legal to ensure compliant and responsible AI.
- Implement usage monitoring and bias mitigation to improve result quality.
AI Adoption & Enablement
- Act as the primary internal AI champion, providing guidance, training, and best-practice workshops for the company.
- Create and maintain self-service resources (playbooks, tutorials, templates) that empower users to build and evaluate AI solutions safely.
- Host regular "AI office hours," one-on-one coaching sessions, and webinars to raise AI expertise across the company.
- Partner with compliance and ethics teams to embed responsible-AI checks into everyday workflows.
- Gather user feedback, translate it into product requirements, and drive iterative improvements to AI tools and platforms.
Basic Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Science/AI/ML (or related) with 3+ years AI/ML engineering experience.
- Proficient in programming languages such as Python.
- Understanding of LLMs and multimodal models with their performance considerations and use cases.
- Knowledge about prompt engineering, RAG, and building AI Agents.
- Experience with ML/LLM libraries such as vLLM, LangChain, PyTorch, and HuggingFace.
- Practical experience developing, deploying, and scaling AI Agents in a production environment.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences and collaborate cross-functionally.
- Experience running trainings to teach and promote AI best practices.
- Ability to create self-service enablement assets (playbooks, tutorials, reusable component libraries).
- Proven track record of gathering user feedback and iterating on AI tools to improve adoption.
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls.
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S. in Computer Science, AI, ML, or related field.
- Proficiency in TypeScript.
- Knowledge of ethical AI, compliance frameworks, and safety standards.
- Experience with multimodal pipelines and traditional AI/ML methods.
- Hands-on MLOps: CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes.
Work Environment
- Hybrid
What We Offer:
- Holistic Compensation Package: Enjoy a world-class compensation package that includes a competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities, ensuring you're truly valued for your contributions.
- Wellness and Time Off: Embrace a healthy lifestyle with paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown to recharge. We support growing families with paid parental leave, recognizing the importance of bonding time.
- Comprehensive Health and Wellness: Prioritize your well-being with our comprehensive health and wellness benefits, offering both HMO and Premium PPO options. Additionally, benefit from company-sponsored life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage for peace of mind.
- Investment in Growth: We're committed to your professional development. Take advantage of reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives, empowering you to continuously expand your skill set and reach peak performance.
- Collaborative and High-Performing Environment: Join our collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing team within a fast-paced, mission-driven company. Together, we're disrupting the traditional manufacturing industry, fostering innovation, and integrating people and technology to reduce our footprint.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Divergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic. Divergent provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.
EEO Poster
In order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected.
E-Verify: Right to Work
Our company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate's eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This helps employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees.
Eligibility to Work Poster (English) | Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish)
Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)
Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
No agencies, no solicitations, and no calls please.
Divergent is a technology company that has architected, invented, built, and commercialized an end-to-end factory system called the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) that comprehensively uses machine learning to optimally engineer, additively manufacture, and flexibly assemble complex integrated vehicle structures and subsystems. Products created using DAPS are superior in performance, lower in cost, rapidly customizable to meet mission and customer-specific requirements, faster to market, and scalable on demand to high volume production. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs, and Divergent is now expanding to support mission critical needs in the Aerospace and Defense sector. Join us to be a part of this transformative journey, where your impact will shape the future of technology and production.
Purpose
We are looking for an AI Solutions Engineer who not only builds cutting-edge generative-AI systems but also serves as the AI Enablement lead for the organization. You'll design, develop, and productionize large-language and multimodal model solutions while dedicating a significant portion of your time to help teams adopt AI responsibly and effectively.
The Role
Help Build & Deploy AI Solutions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate and optimize generative AI solutions into products and processes.
- Develop domain specific AI software using RAG and Agentic AI.
- Collaborate with the data engineers, product teams, people operations, and legal to ensure compliant and responsible AI.
- Implement usage monitoring and bias mitigation to improve result quality.
AI Adoption & Enablement
- Act as the primary internal AI champion, providing guidance, training, and best-practice workshops for the company.
- Create and maintain self-service resources (playbooks, tutorials, templates) that empower users to build and evaluate AI solutions safely.
- Host regular "AI office hours," one-on-one coaching sessions, and webinars to raise AI expertise across the company.
- Partner with compliance and ethics teams to embed responsible-AI checks into everyday workflows.
- Gather user feedback, translate it into product requirements, and drive iterative improvements to AI tools and platforms.
Basic Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Science/AI/ML (or related) with 3+ years AI/ML engineering experience.
- Proficient in programming languages such as Python.
- Understanding of LLMs and multimodal models with their performance considerations and use cases.
- Knowledge about prompt engineering, RAG, and building AI Agents.
- Experience with ML/LLM libraries such as vLLM, LangChain, PyTorch, and HuggingFace.
- Practical experience developing, deploying, and scaling AI Agents in a production environment.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences and collaborate cross-functionally.
- Experience running trainings to teach and promote AI best practices.
- Ability to create self-service enablement assets (playbooks, tutorials, reusable component libraries).
- Proven track record of gathering user feedback and iterating on AI tools to improve adoption.
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls.
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S. in Computer Science, AI, ML, or related field.
- Proficiency in TypeScript.
- Knowledge of ethical AI, compliance frameworks, and safety standards.
- Experience with multimodal pipelines and traditional AI/ML methods.
- Hands-on MLOps: CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes.
Work Environment
- Hybrid
What We Offer:
- Holistic Compensation Package: Enjoy a world-class compensation package that includes a competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities, ensuring you're truly valued for your contributions.
- Wellness and Time Off: Embrace a healthy lifestyle with paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown to recharge. We support growing families with paid parental leave, recognizing the importance of bonding time.
- Comprehensive Health and Wellness: Prioritize your well-being with our comprehensive health and wellness benefits, offering both HMO and Premium PPO options. Additionally, benefit from company-sponsored life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage for peace of mind.
- Investment in Growth: We're committed to your professional development. Take advantage of reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives, empowering you to continuously expand your skill set and reach peak performance.
- Collaborative and High-Performing Environment: Join our collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing team within a fast-paced, mission-driven company. Together, we're disrupting the traditional manufacturing industry, fostering innovation, and integrating people and technology to reduce our footprint.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Divergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic. Divergent provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.
EEO Poster
In order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected.
E-Verify: Right to Work
Our company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate's eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This helps employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees.
Eligibility to Work Poster (English) | Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish)
Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)
Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
No agencies, no solicitations, and no calls please.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as an AI Solutions Engineer
Verify your degree qualifies before applying
Not every computer science or engineering degree automatically qualifies. Check your program's CIP code against the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List to confirm your specific major is eligible before you apply for the STEM OPT extension.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Any employer who hires you on STEM OPT must be enrolled in E-Verify. Search the E-Verify employer search tool by company name before signing an offer letter. Enrollment status can change, so check at the offer stage, not after.
Target employers with active AI infrastructure roles
AI Solutions Engineers who work on deployed systems are stronger STEM OPT training plan candidates than those in purely client-facing roles. Look for job descriptions that specify model integration, MLOps pipelines, or production AI systems, which map cleanly to a defensible I-983 training plan.
Draft your I-983 training plan before your offer deadline
Your employer must sign your I-983 before your DSO can recommend the STEM OPT extension in SEVIS. Build a draft that ties your AI Solutions Engineer responsibilities to specific learning objectives from your STEM degree, so your employer isn't starting from scratch under deadline pressure.
Use Migrate Mate to find AI Solutions Engineer roles at E-Verify employers
Filter your job search to employers already confirmed in E-Verify. Migrate Mate surfaces AI Solutions Engineer positions at companies verified for STEM OPT hiring, cutting the due-diligence step you'd otherwise run on every application.
File your extension application 90 days before OPT expires
USCIS requires your STEM OPT extension application to be filed while your initial OPT EAD is still valid, and you can apply up to 90 days before it expires. Missing this window means a gap in work authorization that neither you nor your employer can bridge retroactively.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does my degree qualify me for the STEM OPT extension as an AI Solutions Engineer?
Your degree qualifies if it appears on the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List by CIP code. Degrees in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, and information systems typically qualify. Your DSO can confirm your specific program's CIP code. The job title alone doesn't determine eligibility, your degree field does.
Does my employer need to be enrolled in E-Verify for me to work as an AI Solutions Engineer on STEM OPT?
Yes. E-Verify enrollment is a legal requirement for every employer who hires a STEM OPT student, with no exceptions. You can verify enrollment using the E-Verify employer search tool before you accept an offer. If your employer is not enrolled at the time you start work, your STEM OPT authorization is invalid regardless of what your EAD says.
What should my I-983 training plan include for an AI Solutions Engineer role?
Your I-983 must connect your day-to-day responsibilities to learning goals that relate directly to your STEM degree field. For an AI Solutions Engineer, this typically includes objectives around model deployment, system integration, performance evaluation, and applied machine learning. Vague descriptions like 'assist with AI projects' are insufficient. USCIS expects specificity that demonstrates a genuine educational connection to your degree.
How does the cap-gap rule apply if my employer files an H-1B petition while I'm on STEM OPT?
If your employer files an H-1B visa petition on your behalf before your STEM OPT EAD expires and you're selected in the lottery, the cap-gap rule automatically extends your work authorization through September 30 of that fiscal year. You don't need to file anything separately, but your employer must have submitted the petition before your current EAD expired for cap-gap to apply.
Where can I find AI Solutions Engineer jobs where the employer is already set up for STEM OPT hiring?
Migrate Mate lists AI Solutions Engineer roles at employers confirmed for E-Verify enrollment, so you can focus your applications on companies already equipped to hire STEM OPT students. This matters because even well-funded employers in AI sometimes haven't completed E-Verify enrollment, and discovering that after an offer is made creates delays that can affect your authorization timeline.