Senior AI Engineer & Technical Leader - AI-First SDLC

Data Innovations; United States; Remote; USD 159,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid holidays

Job summary

Data Innovations seeks an AI Engineer IV to provide technical direction and hands-on software engineering for AI-enabled solutions. The role anchors the full software development life cycle in a fast-growing environment, with emphasis on AI-first practices and cross-team collaboration.

The engineer will guide multiple teams, implement AI-augmented software, and champion AI adoption while delivering high-quality platforms and middleware for DI’s global customers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of proven hand-on software engineering experience with professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle.
• Expert level knowledge of AI IDEs with preference for Claude Code, Cursor, and/or Kiro.
• Proven ability to design and operate with an AI-first mindset including prompt engineering, context management and agentic coding pipelines.
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generations (RAG) techniques and strategies.
• Deep understanding of how to integrate AI tooling across the full SDLC - code regeneration, automated testing, documentation, code review and release process.

Responsibilities

• Review, modify, develop, write and implement software applications, usually very complex in nature, with an AI-augmented approach.
• Guide teams in building and refining world-class middleware and platform solutions.
• Provide technical direction for the company and come up with novel ways to solve engineering problems using AI.
• Champion an AI-first engineering culture across the team - introducing AI assigned code delivery, monitoring and proactive bug findings.
• Identify opportunities to embed AI automation in the software lifecycle.
• Serve as the organization’s authority on emerging AI development practices and champion AI adoption across engineering teams.
• Build relationships with stakeholders of the teams to understand business context and requirements for the solutions that the project team is working on to deliver.

Skills

Software engineering

AI tooling

Prompt engineering

Context management

Agentic coding pipelines

RAG techniques

SDLC integration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Kiro

Job description

Data Innovations seeks an AI Engineer IV to provide technical direction and hands-on software engineering for AI-enabled solutions. The role anchors the full software development life cycle in a fast-growing environment, with emphasis on AI-first practices and cross-team collaboration.

The engineer will guide multiple teams, implement AI-augmented software, and champion AI adoption while delivering high-quality platforms and middleware for DI’s global customers.