Remote Lead AI Systems Engineer

Maximus; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a Lead AI Systems Engineer to join the AI Transformation and Experience team. You will design, build, test, deploy, and operate production software with AI components, mentoring junior engineers. This remote role offers impact across government and enterprise systems.

Applicants should have 7+ years of software engineering, 3+ years AI/ML, and cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP. US citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years AI/ML or related technologies.
• 5+ years designing or building cloud solutions.
• Demonstrated experience owning software through deployment and operations.
• US Citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, ship, and operate production software systems with AI capabilities.
• Own difficult technical problems from exploration through deployment and improvement.
• Write high-quality software, APIs, services, tests, infrastructure and tooling.
• Build AI-enabled apps integrating models, data, cloud services and APIs.
• Apply strong engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and security.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and design discussions.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

AI/ML integration

Code reviews

Mentoring

DevOps/CI-CD

Security/compliance

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Maximus is seeking a Lead AI Systems Engineer to join the AI Transformation and Experience team. You will design, build, test, deploy, and operate production software with AI components, mentoring junior engineers. This remote role offers impact across government and enterprise systems.

Applicants should have 7+ years of software engineering, 3+ years AI/ML, and cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP. US citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust are required.