Lead AI Engineer — Production-Grade GenAI Platform

BMC Software; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

BMC Software in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to build the next generation Agentic AI platform from 0–1. This is a hands-on, delivery-driven role for an engineer who has shipped AI-powered products in enterprise environments and takes ownership of outcomes.

You will design, code, and ship production-grade AI capabilities used by external B2B customers, focusing on reliability, cost efficiency, and customer impact while balancing latency and safety.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience shipping B2B products.
• Expert level Python and production systems design experience.
• Hands-on AI products in production with real applications and guardrails.
• Experience deploying and operating LLMs and GenAI systems in real use-cases.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve agentic AI systems for production environments.
• Lead AI features from concept to production in a 0–1 context.
• Write and review production-grade Python code across AI pipelines and services.
• Implement prompt engineering, tool use, memory, evaluation, and safety considerations.

Skills

Python

LLMs / GenAI

Production AI systems

Multi-agent systems

Ambiguity decision making

Tools

LangGraph / LangChain

LlamaIndex

Vector databases

Prompt engineering tooling

Kubernetes

GPU optimization

Job description

BMC Software in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to build the next generation Agentic AI platform from 0–1. This is a hands-on, delivery-driven role for an engineer who has shipped AI-powered products in enterprise environments and takes ownership of outcomes.

You will design, code, and ship production-grade AI capabilities used by external B2B customers, focusing on reliability, cost efficiency, and customer impact while balancing latency and safety.