Lead AI Software Engineer
$182,000.00 – $259,000.00
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SENIORITY
Lead
SALARY
$182,000.00 – $259,000.00
About the role
- Interface with team members across one or more domains, executives and stakeholders across the business to provide context, direction setting and technical guidance.
- Collaboratively contribute to and/or author high level designs and partner with key leaders to ensure strategic alignment.
- Serve as lead engineer for major initiatives, working across teams to develop and implement low level designs.
- Facilitate quick-turnaround solutions to address urgent business needs, striking the right balance between delivery speed, scalability, and reliability.
- Collaborate with Product & Engineering leadership to help shape the AI strategy.
- Assess technology options to establish fit for purpose and make selections to optimize ROI for the business.
- Build scalable solutions and systems that are secure, cost-effective and performant at very large scale.
- Deep understanding of and experience with RAG pipelines, MCP, AI agents, multimodal LLMs, prompt orchestration, LLM telemetry and inspection, etc.
- Upskill the organization by evangelizing technologies and identifying opportunities for experimentation and education.
- Who Are YouSignificant experience architecting and shipping Agentic AI systems in production, not just prototypes or proofs of concept.
- Strong server-side engineering in Python, Go, Java, or similar, with the judgment that comes from having maintained what you built
- Experience building product solutions with LLMs and GenAI technologies
- Experience working with product data pipelines and familiarity with e-commerce taxonomies, schemas, is highly preferred
- Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure (e.g., vector databases, model orchestration tools, inference frameworks, cloud-native ML workflows) is preferred
- Demonstrated technical leadership across cross-functional teams (engineering, product, and other stakeholders), driving both vision and execution without relying on formal authority.
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), API architecture, and modern MLOps practices.
- Solid experience with SQL, in-memory storage and similar data storage solutions
- Familiarity with Angular, React and other similar Frontend frameworks
- Preferred minimum Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS; or equivalent experience
- Work Where You ThriveFor candidates based in the Austin or Atlanta metro area, the position follows a hybrid work model with three days per week in the office, balancing focused individual work with meaningful in-person collaboration.(Pay Transparency Range: $182,000.00 – $259,000.00)
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