Lead AI Engineer
PowerSchool Group LLC3 months ago
Dallas, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$93k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy agentic AI workflows and customer-facing AI products.
- Build production-grade multi-agent workflows, agentic data workflows, RAG applications, document intelligence and summarization pipelines, and workflow automation solutions.
- Translate business problems into working AI systems through lightweight architecture, rapid prototyping, validation, and deployment.
- Develop prompt engineering strategies, orchestration logic, API integrations, data pipelines, and testing, validation, and monitoring frameworks.
- Partner with stakeholders to refine outputs and drive adoption.
- Deliver frequent weekly or bi-weekly releases in a high-accountability environment.
- Build reusable prompt templates, agent design patterns, and integration utilities.
- Contribute to standards and best practices for prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation, testing, AI governance, and responsible use.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a small team of AI engineers and automation specialists.
- Lead hands-on technical contributions and support the scaling of the AI engineering function.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field.
- 6–10+ years of software engineering experience with recent hands-on work in AI/LLM systems.
- Proven experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, and automation solutions in production environments.
- Cloud deployment experience with AWS and Azure.
- Hands-on experience with Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, NotebookLM, or similar AI-assisted development tools.
- Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or equivalent frameworks.
- Desired experience with software deployment, data engineering, RAG architectures, vector databases, workflow automation tools, and enterprise integrations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life insurance, and AD&D coverage.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Comprehensive 401(k) plan.
- Generous parental leave.
- Unrestricted paid time off through Discretionary Time Off (DTO).
- Wellness program including ClassPass and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Optional pet insurance, identity theft protection, student debt repayment, and prepaid legal coverage.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- United States position with a stated base compensation range of $92,800–$170,300; compensation figures excluded from benefit details.
- PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and provides recruiting-process accommodations upon request.
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About PowerSchool Group LLC
PowerSchool builds cloud software for K-12 school districts, spanning student information, learning management (Schoology), enrollment, assessments, analytics, special education, and HR/finance. It sells these products as SaaS to districts and state agencies to manage data, instruction, and operations across schools and families. Headquartered in Folsom, CA, PowerSchool supports over 60 million students at more than 18,000 customers, including over 90 of the 100 largest U.S. districts by enrollment.