Lead Engineer, AI Software

Maximus is currently seeking a Lead Engineer, AI Software.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead AI Systems Engineer to join the Maximus AI Transformation and Experience team, building software and AI capabilities used across the enterprise and the government programs we support.

We are looking for an experienced software engineer who has built real systems, shipped them to production, and learned what it takes to keep them running there.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role where you will spend most of your time designing, building, testing, deploying, and improving software.

AI and machine learning are important parts of what we build, but software engineering comes first.

Successful AI systems require well-designed applications, APIs, infrastructure, security, testing, observability, and operational discipline in addition to the models themselves.

You will work alongside talented engineers and technical specialists on challenging problems where experimentation, engineering judgment, and pragmatic decision-making matter.

The work has meaningful impact, improving how Maximus employees do their jobs and the experiences of the citizens who rely on the government services we help deliver.

This is a remote position.

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:

- 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 determ...