Remote AI Lead Engineer — LLMs, Agents & Scalable Systems

Bigcommerce; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 182,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

BigCommerce is seeking a highly accountable AI Lead Software Engineer to drive the design and execution of agentic AI solutions across product use-cases. You will collaborate with senior Product and Engineering leaders to implement scalable AI architectures and deliver measurable outcomes.

You will mentor teams, craft high- and low-level designs, and prioritize rapid experimentation while ensuring reliability and ROI across the business.

Qualifications

• Proven experience shipping Agentic AI systems in production.
• Strong server-side engineering in Python/Go/Java.
• Experience with LLMs and GenAI product solutions.
• Familiarity with e-commerce data pipelines and taxonomies.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of AI-based product solutions.
• Collaborate with leadership to shape AI strategy.
• Develop low-level designs from high-level concepts.
• Build scalable, secure, cost-effective systems at large scale.
• Mentor and evangelize AI capabilities across the organization.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

GenAI/LLMs

API Architecture

Cloud platforms

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Angular

React

Vector databases

Model orchestration tools

Inference frameworks

Job description

BigCommerce is seeking a highly accountable AI Lead Software Engineer to drive the design and execution of agentic AI solutions across product use-cases. You will collaborate with senior Product and Engineering leaders to implement scalable AI architectures and deliver measurable outcomes.

You will mentor teams, craft high- and low-level designs, and prioritize rapid experimentation while ensuring reliability and ROI across the business.