It's more than a job
In this IT role, you will manage, develop, and support the technology infrastructure that powers Kuehne+Nagel’s global systems and operations. This contribution is vital to making both special and ordinary moments in the lives of people a reality. In fact, your work enables our teams to deliver fresh fruit, time-sensitive healthcare products and much more to people all around the world. Working in IT at Kuehne+Nagel contributes to more than we imagine.
We are seeking an Agentic AI Engineer to design, develop, and optimize autonomous AI agents that enhance decision‑making, streamline workflows, and integrate with key logistics systems across our Sea Logistics organization. This position plays a critical role in driving intelligent automation and ensuring safe, reliable AI operations at scale.
How you create impact
- Design and develop autonomous AI agents with reasoning, planning, decision‑making, and task‑execution capabilities.
- Build agentic systems using frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, ReAct, or custom architectures.
- Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems including TMS, ERP, CRM, WMS, APIs, databases, and event‑driven platforms.
- Implement guardrails, validation layers, fallback logic, and human‑in‑the‑loop controls for safe automation.
- Develop monitoring, logging, and explainability mechanisms to ensure transparency and compliance.
- Optimize agent performance for reliability, accuracy, latency, and operational cost.
- Conduct benchmarking and scenario‑based validation tests in real business environments.
- Prototype and evaluate new agentic use cases across customer service, operations, planning, and reporting.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, and operations teams to deliver scalable agentic solutions.
- Translate business needs into technical architectures and automation capabilities.
What we would like you to bring
- Experience building agentic systems and integrating with enterprise APIs, databases, and logistics platforms required.
- Strong Python engineering skills; experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Understanding of freight forwarding or logistics operations is preferred, but candidates may develop business knowledge on the job.
- Knowledge of RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, model tuning, and LLM orchestration.
- Experience with workflow automation, guardrails, validation layers, and risk‑mitigation logic.
- Familiarity with event‑driven architectures, SQL/NoSQL databases, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Comfortable with 4 days a week onsite in our Detroit, MI office and 1 day work from home
What's in it for you
Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. Base wage is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI-KE1
Kuehne+Nagel participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
Who we are
Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.
As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.
We kindly advise that placement agencies refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles. Any submissions of candidates without prior signed agreement will be considered our property and no fees will be paid.