Senior AI Systems Engineer - Remote & Production-Ready

Maximus; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a lead AI software engineer to design, build, and operate production AI-enabled systems at scale. You will own complex problems from exploration to deployment, delivering high‑quality software and tools while mentoring peers.

Remote position in the US with responsibilities spanning API design, CI/CD, observability, security, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams to deliver government and enterprise solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience with artificial intelligence, machine learning, or related technologies.
• 5+ years of experience designing or building solutions in cloud environments.
• 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 modern software delivery practices including automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and observability.
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML capabilities into software systems or demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply 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, build, ship, and operate production software systems incorporating AI and machine learning capabilities.
• 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

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud computing

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Go

C++

Rust

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Maximus is seeking a lead AI software engineer to design, build, and operate production AI-enabled systems at scale. You will own complex problems from exploration to deployment, delivering high‑quality software and tools while mentoring peers.

Remote position in the US with responsibilities spanning API design, CI/CD, observability, security, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams to deliver government and enterprise solutions.