Senior AI Software Engineer: Scalable LLM Backends

Lincoln Motor Company; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincoln Motor Company is seeking a Software Engineer to advance its AI/ML initiatives by building scalable backend services, REST/GraphQL APIs, and cloud-native solutions. You will prototype features, implement RAG/LAN-based workflows, and collaborate with data scientists and engineers to deliver production-ready software.

The role emphasizes clean architecture, CI/CD, and secure, scalable deployment on AWS/Azure/GCP. Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling and multi-agent systems is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3–6 years of professional software engineering delivering production-grade applications.
• Strong proficiency in Python and software design principles.
• Experience building REST and GraphQL APIs and microservices architectures.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Git, automated testing, code review, debugging, and SDLC best practices.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and platforms.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• Experience deploying to AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI frameworks like LangChain.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable backend services and APIs, primarily using Python.
• Build modular, maintainable, and well-tested software following clean architecture.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve productivity while maintaining code quality.
• Prototype new features rapidly while balancing speed and long-term scalability.
• Develop and integrate LLM-powered capabilities and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.
• Design and implement agentic and multi-agent systems for task orchestration.
• Containerize apps with Docker and deploy workloads via Kubernetes.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, integration, deployment, and releases.
• Deploy and operate solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP; collaborate with data scientists and product teams.
• Focus on performance, latency, scalability, and cost optimization; ensure security and observability.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

GraphQL

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git

LLMs / AI

LangChain / AI frameworks

Distributed systems

Testing & QA

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Engineering/Data Science

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Git

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform / IaC

Job description

Lincoln Motor Company is seeking a Software Engineer to advance its AI/ML initiatives by building scalable backend services, REST/GraphQL APIs, and cloud-native solutions. You will prototype features, implement RAG/LAN-based workflows, and collaborate with data scientists and engineers to deliver production-ready software.

The role emphasizes clean architecture, CI/CD, and secure, scalable deployment on AWS/Azure/GCP. Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling and multi-agent systems is highly valued.