AI Platform Lead: Reusable Kits & Production-Ready AI

Jonas Software; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jonas Software seeks a Technical Lead for the Central AI Lab to build and ship production-grade AI capabilities across Vesta BUs. You will lead by example as a hands-on engineer, set the engineering bar, and turn pilots into reusable starter kits with strong DevOps, security, and handover discipline.

The role emphasizes delivering in 90-day cycles, guiding architectures across Azure, AWS, and on-prem, and ensuring scalable, observable, and secure systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and operating production software systems (SaaS, enterprise, or similar).
• Strong SDLC fundamentals: testing, code review, CI/CD, release management, incident thinking.
• Proven ability to design secure systems: authN/authZ, secrets management, audit/logging, least privilege.
• Strong backend engineering (APIs, data stores, async patterns) and comfort going “full stack” when needed.
• Cloud and DevOps competence (AWS and/or Azure; containers; infrastructure automation).
• Practical experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into products or workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution design and implementation for central pilots and reusable components.
• Lead technical discovery with BUs: constraints, data readiness, integration points, and security requirements.
• Support adoption of AI-DLC/AI-SDLC methodology across Portfolio BUs by leading by example and supporting change management.
• Build full-stack capabilities: APIs, data flows, UI surfaces where required, and LLM application layers (agents/RAG/workflows).
• Establish CI/CD patterns for AI-enabled systems (tests, security scanning, release gates, environment separation).
• Drive reliability: observability, cost controls, latency, fallbacks, and safe failure modes.

Skills

Lead software engineering

AI/ML delivery

SDLC & DevOps

Security-first design

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Jonas Software seeks a Technical Lead for the Central AI Lab to build and ship production-grade AI capabilities across Vesta BUs. You will lead by example as a hands-on engineer, set the engineering bar, and turn pilots into reusable starter kits with strong DevOps, security, and handover discipline.

The role emphasizes delivering in 90-day cycles, guiding architectures across Azure, AWS, and on-prem, and ensuring scalable, observable, and secure systems.