5 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$152k - $221k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and lead reusable platforms, internal developer foundations, infrastructure, and workflows for client organizations.
- Lead platform strategy, architecture, modernization, replatforming, and delivery across diverse engagements.
- Design and deliver scalable, maintainable, secure, observable, fault-tolerant production software and AI/agentic systems.
- Collaborate across the full ML lifecycle, including data ingestion, preprocessing, model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring.
- Advise clients on architecture, scalability, platform evolution, technical tradeoffs, and product and business outcomes.
- Build trust with clients, influence CTOs and executives, and manage technical roadmaps for large engagements.
- Coach client engineering teams, transfer knowledge, mentor colleagues, and improve engineering practices.
- Facilitate retrospectives, strategy sessions, technical deep-dives, feedback conversations, and stakeholder alignment.
- Partner with account teams on opportunity identification, stakeholder relationships, and pre-sales scope shaping.
- Contribute to internal workshops, hiring processes, company culture, and the broader technology community.
Requirements
- Typically 10+ years of repeated success across a variety of software projects.
- Deep consulting acumen, technical expertise, product thinking, and experience guiding ambiguous initiatives.
- Experience building and shipping production-grade platforms, tools, infrastructure, and workflows.
- Experience taking AI and agentic systems from prototype to production, including infrastructure, authentication, and observability.
- Experience leading production-grade software across multiple languages, frameworks, stacks, ecosystems, and client industries.
- Experience building or integrating AI/ML features such as recommendation engines, NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics, RAG pipelines, and agents.
- Experience leading modernization, replatforming, and architecture-level initiatives involving scalability, security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and observability.
- Strong communication, stakeholder facilitation, technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing skills.
- Preferred experience in platform engineering, data engineering with Databricks, production agentic systems, DevSecOps/DevOps, MLOps, and infrastructure as code.
- Preferred experience with RAG pipelines, vector search, and agentic frameworks including LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, and n8n.
Benefits
- Remote-first work across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with coworking support and hubs in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle.
- Most consulting engagements do not require travel.
- Unlimited access to books, courses, and expert-led training through the O'Reilly learning platform.
- Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning and development.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Twelve weeks of new parent leave for eligible employees.
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About 8th Light
8th Light is an employee-owned software consultancy that provides product strategy, design, and engineering, with a focus on AI-enabled systems and platform modernization. It partners with enterprises in finance, education, retail, real estate, healthcare, and consumer markets through project-based engagements and embedded teams. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held with additional offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, and Austin.