Remote Lead AI Engineer: Production ML & Data Systems

Maximus; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to join the AI Transformation and Experience team to design, build, and refine AI capabilities across enterprise and government programs. This remote role emphasizes production-ready algorithms, scalable data science, and practical cloud‑based deployments.

In this hands-on position, you will ship robust AI solutions, mentor colleagues, and continuously improve models and systems in production environments, ensuring real mission outcomes and impact for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with substantial professional experience required.
• 7+ years building and data science experience; production algorithms on real data.
• 5+ years designing or building cloud solutions.
• 3+ years experience with AI/ML technologies.
• Experience deploying algorithms beyond notebooks on production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve production AI solutions.
• Own difficult technical problems from initial exploration through implementation, deployment, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Write high‑quality software and contribute directly to custom enterprise capabilities.
• Build AI-enabled applications that integrate models, enterprise data, cloud services, APIs, and existing systems.
• Improve AI solutions by incorporating holistic algorithmic improvements.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies through hands-on experimentation and determine practical production value.
• Build reusable components, libraries, patterns, and reference implementations for AI capabilities.
• Mentor staff through solutioning of custom algorithms and enhancements.

Skills

Python

Systems programming

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

LLMs/AI models

Production software

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

SageMaker

Job description

Maximus is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to join the AI Transformation and Experience team to design, build, and refine AI capabilities across enterprise and government programs. This remote role emphasizes production-ready algorithms, scalable data science, and practical cloud‑based deployments.

In this hands-on position, you will ship robust AI solutions, mentor colleagues, and continuously improve models and systems in production environments, ensuring real mission outcomes and impact for