AI Lead Engineer — Scale Innovative AI for Commerce

Commerce; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Commerce is seeking a highly accountable, impact-driven AI Lead Software Engineer in a hybrid Austin/Atlanta‑area role to guide AI initiatives across product teams. You’ll design and implement AI-based product solutions, mentor engineers, and translate high-level strategy into concrete designs that improve outcomes at scale.

You’ll collaborate with senior Product and Engineering leaders to drive the AI vision, building reusable, secure, and high-performance systems, and mentoring teams on best

Qualifications

• 5+ years of coding experience in server-side languages (Python, GoLang, Java, etc).
• Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/SW/CE/MIS or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience architecting and building AI/ML systems in production with structured and unstructured data.
• Experience building product solutions with LLMs and GenAI technologies.
• Experience with product data pipelines and e-commerce taxonomies, schemas is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure (vector databases, model orchestration tools, inference frameworks, cloud-native ML workflows).
• Hands-on leadership experience with cross-functional teams—engineering, product, design, data science.
• 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 frontend frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Interface with team members across domains, executives and stakeholders to provide context and technical guidance.
• Collaboratively contribute to high level designs and ensure strategic alignment.
• Serve as lead engineer for major initiatives across teams with low level designs.
• Facilitate quick turnaround solutions addressing urgent business needs while balancing delivery speed, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product & Engineering leadership to shape AI strategy.
• Assess technology options to fit purpose and optimize ROI.
• Build scalable, secure, cost-effective architectures for large-scale systems.
• Deep understanding of RAG pipelines, MCP, AI agents, multimodal LLMs, prompt orchestration, LLM telemetry and inspection.
• Upskill the organization by evangelizing technologies and opportunities for experimentation and education.

Skills

Python

GoLang

Java

SQL

AWS

GCP

Azure

API architecture

Leadership

LLM / GenAI

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS; or equivalent experience

Tools

Vector databases

Model orchestration tools

Inference frameworks

Cloud-native ML workflows

Kubernetes

Job description

Commerce is seeking a highly accountable, impact-driven AI Lead Software Engineer in a hybrid Austin/Atlanta‑area role to guide AI initiatives across product teams. You’ll design and implement AI-based product solutions, mentor engineers, and translate high-level strategy into concrete designs that improve outcomes at scale.

You’ll collaborate with senior Product and Engineering leaders to drive the AI vision, building reusable, secure, and high-performance systems, and mentoring teams on best