Senior AI Systems Engineer — Remote & Production-Grade

Maximus; Montpelier (VT); Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a Lead AI Systems Engineer to design, build, test, and operate production software with AI and ML capabilities. This hands-on role emphasizes solid software engineering, APIs, and scalable systems across enterprise and government programs.

You will own difficult problems from exploration to deployment, mentor engineers, and apply CI/CD, observability, security, and high reliability practices. US Citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production systems.
• 3+ years of experience with artificial intelligence, machine learning, or related technologies.
• 5+ years of experience designing or building solutions in cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience owning software through deployment, production operations, troubleshooting, maintenance, and evolution.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system and API design, testing, source control, and secure development.
• Experience designing and implementing systems on AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and observability.
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML capabilities into software systems or ability to learn emerging technologies.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and risks clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• US Citizenship required.
• Must have the ability to obtain a Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop advanced AI software applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and integration with enterprise systems.
• Own difficult technical problems from initial exploration through implementation, deployment, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Write high-quality software and contribute directly to application code, APIs, services, automated tests, infrastructure, and engineering tooling.
• Build AI-enabled applications that integrate models, enterprise data, cloud services, APIs, and existing systems.
• Apply strong engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, resiliency, and performance optimization.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies through hands-on experimentation and determine where they can provide practical value in production.
• Build reusable components, libraries, patterns, and reference implementations that help other teams deliver better software.
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pairing, design discussions, and shared problem solving.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/ML

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Python

Systems programming

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Maximus is seeking a Lead AI Systems Engineer to design, build, test, and operate production software with AI and ML capabilities. This hands-on role emphasizes solid software engineering, APIs, and scalable systems across enterprise and government programs.

You will own difficult problems from exploration to deployment, mentor engineers, and apply CI/CD, observability, security, and high reliability practices. US Citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust are required.