Lead Staff Software Engineer - AI Platforms (Hybrid, Burbank)

Eliassen Group; Burbank (CA); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff (Lead) Software Engineer in Burbank, CA to drive the next generation of AI-driven infrastructure for media workflows. This role blends backend systems, workflow orchestration, and AI to deliver agentic platforms for mastering, localization, and delivery.

You will lead design, implement scalable services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with ML teams to ship production-ready AI capabilities. Hybrid work with on-site in Burbank is offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in backend or systems engineering with 3+ years building AI-powered or workflow-centric platforms.

Responsibilities

• Translate AI prototypes into production-ready microservices in Java, Kotlin, Python, or TypeScript using Kubernetes and CI/CD.
• Implement event-driven services with Kafka, SNS/SQS, or EventBridge for loosely coupled, fault-tolerant communication.
• Build and maintain reliable, observable APIs with clear contracts and long-term maintainability.
• Lead technical planning, system design, and delivery reviews across engineering and product.
• Partner with platform teams, product managers, and ML engineers to deliver business-ready AI capabilities.
• Mentor team members and track trends in LLM tooling, orchestration, and agent frameworks.
• Design and build API gateways, wrappers, and middleware that expose studio systems and data to AI agents.
• Manage secure access to tools, metadata, and content systems through model context protocol (MCP).
• Standardize agent interfaces with internal services across the supply chain.
• Deploy agentic platforms such as LangGraph or LangChain to manage tool execution, context routing, and decision logic.
• Implement tracing, audit logging, and governance checkpoints including human approval and fallback paths.
• Integrate orchestration into media workflows including mastering, localization, and delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Backend architecture

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/SE

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Python

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Terraform

CDK

LangGraph

LangChain

OpenAI

Anthropic

Kafka

EventBridge

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff (Lead) Software Engineer in Burbank, CA to drive the next generation of AI-driven infrastructure for media workflows. This role blends backend systems, workflow orchestration, and AI to deliver agentic platforms for mastering, localization, and delivery.

You will lead design, implement scalable services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with ML teams to ship production-ready AI capabilities. Hybrid work with on-site in Burbank is offered.