Lead AI Software Engineer - Remote Production

Maximus; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a Lead AI Systems Engineer to join the AI Transformation and Experience team, building software and AI capabilities used enterprise-wide and in government programs. This is a remote position requiring 7+ years of software engineering, cloud design experience, and strong AI/ML background.

You will design, build, test, deploy, and operate production AI-enabled software, mentoring junior engineers and guiding best practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience building and supporting production systems.
• 3+ years of experience with artificial intelligence, machine learning or related technologies.
• 5+ years of experience designing or building solutions in cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience owning software through deployment, production operations, troubleshooting maintenance and evolution.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system and API design testing source control and secure development.
• Experience designing and implementing systems on AWS Azure GCP or similar cloud platforms.
• Experience with modern software delivery practices including automated testing CI/CD infrastructure automation and observability.
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML capabilities into software systems or demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply emerging technologies.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions tradeoffs and risks clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• US Citizenship required.
• Must have the ability to obtain a Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, ship, and operate production software systems incorporating AI and machine learning capabilities.
• Own difficult technical problems from initial exploration through implementation, deployment, troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
• Write high-quality software and contribute directly to application code, APIs, services, automated tests, infrastructure and engineering tooling.
• Build AI-enabled applications that integrate models, enterprise data, cloud services, APIs and existing systems.
• Apply strong engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, resiliency and performance optimization.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies through hands-on experimentation and determine where they can provide practical value in production.
• Build reusable components, libraries, patterns and reference implementations that help other teams deliver better software.
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews pairing design discussions and shared problem solving.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

C++

C

AWS

Azure

GCP

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Maximus is seeking a Lead AI Systems Engineer to join the AI Transformation and Experience team, building software and AI capabilities used enterprise-wide and in government programs. This is a remote position requiring 7+ years of software engineering, cloud design experience, and strong AI/ML background.

You will design, build, test, deploy, and operate production AI-enabled software, mentoring junior engineers and guiding best practices.