
Staff Engineer (AI & Engineering)
- AI
- Machine Learning
- System Design
- Azure
- Claude
- Design Thinking
We are looking for a Staff Engineer, AI & Engineering who can bridge deep software engineering expertise with practical AI implementation. This role is ideal for a senior technical leader who has built scalable software systems and has experience leveraging AI technologies to solve complex business problems.
You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Data, and Technology leaders to design and deliver modern, resilient, and intelligent solutions. While experience with AI and machine learning technologies is important, this role is fundamentally an engineering leadership position focused on architecture, platform development, system design, and software delivery excellence.
This is a hands-on role requiring strong technical depth, architectural thinking and the ability to influence engineering direction across multiple teams.
What You Will Be Responsible For:
- Design, develop, and deployAI-powered applications and workflows
- Write production-quality code across:
- Backend services and APIs
- AI orchestration layers and agents
- Enterprise integrations
- Rapidly prototype solutions anditerate them into scalable production systems
- Own deliveryend-to-end: build, test, deploy, monitor, and improve
- Translate use cases intoclear, implementable system designs
- Make architecture decisions that balance:
- Speed of delivery
- Scalability and reliability
- Cost and operational efficiency
- Define patterns for:
- API-first integrations
- AI orchestration and workflows
- Reusable services and components
- Ensure systems aresimple enough to build quickly, butstructured enough to scale
- Embed LLM capabilities intoproducts, internal tools, and business processes
- Build and maintainAPIs and system integrations
- Implementagent workflows and orchestration logic that solve real operational problems
- Optimize systems forperformance, resilience, and cost efficiency
3. Integrate AI into Real Enterprise Workflows
- Work directly with stakeholders tounderstand problems and validate solutions
- Translate requirements intoworking software quickly (days/weeks, not months)
- Iterate based on feedback and usage to drivemeasurable impact
- Build and contribute toshared libraries, templates, and services
- Establishpractical patterns based on real implementations
- Help evolve internal platforms throughcode and working solutions, not just design artifacts
- Implementsecure and reliable AI solutions in practice, including:
- Prompt safety and validation
- Injection/misuse prevention
- Observability and traceability
- Align implementations withenterprise security, privacy, and compliance requirements
- Cloud & Platform: Microsoft ecosystem (Azure)
- AI Models: Claude and other enterprise-approved LLMs
- Architecture Style: API-first, event-driven, and modular services
- Core Focus:
- AI application engineering
- Orchestration and agent workflows
- Enterprise integrations
Technology Environment
6. Build Within a Governed AI Environment
5. Contribute to Engineering Standards & Reuse
2. Design Practical, Scalable AI Systems
4. Partner with Business & Deliver Outcomes
You will play a lead technical role in designing and delivering AI-enabled solutions across the enterprise.
1. Build & Ship AI Applications (Primary Focus)
What you bring:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and delivering scalable, production-grade applications and platforms.Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives from design through deployment and ongoing operations.Strong engineering fundamentals with the ability to influence technical direction across teams and organizations.
- Deep expertise in designing scalable, resilient, and maintainable software architectures.
- Experience making trade-offs across:
- delivery speed vs scalability
- simplicity vs flexibility
- Can move fluidly between coding and design thinking
- 3+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying AI/Generative AI solutions in production environments.
- Strong understanding of:
- Prompt design and evaluation
- Agent-based workflows and orchestration
- Integrating AI into production systems
- Ability to debug, tune, and improve AI behavior in code
AI / GenAI Development
System Design & Architecture Judgment
Hands-On Engineering Strength (Critical)
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