Lead AI Software Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Design and develop advanced AI software applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and integration with enterprise systems.
- Responsible for developing and modifying systems software (i.e., software for use in operating/controlling hardware and providing a platform for running internal end-user/business applications).
- Develop and communicate descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive insights/algorithms.
- Apply knowledge of experimental methodologies, statistics, optimization, probability theory and machine learning using code for tool building, statistical analysis and modeling, using both general purpose software and statistical languages.
- Lead technical implementation efforts in both theoretical and product design environments, translating complex algorithms and specifications into code while mentoring junior engineers and guiding team-level development practices.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Develop, collaborate, and advance the applied and responsible use of AI, ML and data science solutions throughout the enterprise by finding the right fit of tools, technologies, processes, and automation to enable effective and efficient solutions for each unique situation.

- Contribute and lead the creation, curation, and promotion of playbooks, best practices, lessons learned and firm intellectual capital.

- Contribute to efforts across the enterprise to support the creation of solutions and real mission outcomes leveraging AI capabilities from Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, LLMs and classical machine learning.

- Maintain current knowledge and evaluation of the AI technology landscape and emerging developments and their applicability for use in production/operational environments

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Professional Programming experience (e.g.

Python, etc.)

- Proficiency in Software Engineering, DevOps, and modern development technologies and methodologies

- Experience with API programming

- Experience with Linux

- Experience with Machine Learning

- Experience working as a contributor on a team

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required.

- 3+ yrs experience in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

- 7+ yrs experience in Software Development

- 4+ yrs experience with Cloud Solutioning

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

- Experience working as an individual contributor in AI

- Use of state-of-the-art technology to solve operational problems in AI and Machine Learning.

- Strong knowledge of data structures, common computing infrastructures/paradigms (stand alone and cloud), and software engineering principles

- Ability to design custom solutions in the AI and Advanced...