Remote Lead AI Engineer for Learner Experiences

pennfostercarrus; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Flexible spending

Generous PTO

Sponsored volunteer opportunities

401(k) with company match

Free access to online programs

Job summary

Penn Foster Group is seeking a Lead Software Engineer, AI Experience to shape AI‑powered learning experiences. You will provide technical leadership across product, engineering, and platform boundaries, turning ambiguous opportunities into scalable systems and guiding AI integrations.

This remote role is US‑based and requires hands‑on execution, architectural judgment, and mentorship to engineers working on AI features.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating customer‑facing software products.
• Demonstrated impact as a technical leader, staff engineer, principal engineer, tech lead, or equivalent role.
• Strong full‑stack engineering fundamentals, including browser technologies, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing and delivering AI‑powered products using LLMs, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, agentic workflows, or related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and architecture for AI‑powered product experiences across the learner and content‑authoring ecosystem.
• Design, build, and ship full‑stack systems using TypeScript, Vue.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Azure.
• Lead complex, cross‑functional initiatives from problem definition through delivery, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
• Establish reusable patterns for retrieval‑augmented generation, agentic workflows, model orchestration, prompt management, and human‑in‑the‑loop experiences.
• Design and maintain evaluation frameworks, quality metrics, observability, and feedback loops for LLM‑powered features.
• Integrate model APIs from Anthropic, OpenAI, and other providers with attention to reliability, latency, cost, privacy, security, and degradation.

Skills

AI experience

Full-stack

TypeScript

Vue.js

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Azure

Architectural judgment

Mentorship

Retrieval augmented generation

Agentic workflows

Model integrations

Code reviews

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Job description

Penn Foster Group is seeking a Lead Software Engineer, AI Experience to shape AI‑powered learning experiences. You will provide technical leadership across product, engineering, and platform boundaries, turning ambiguous opportunities into scalable systems and guiding AI integrations.

This remote role is US‑based and requires hands‑on execution, architectural judgment, and mentorship to engineers working on AI features.