
Sr Tech Lead – Software Engineering & A
Engineers and Constructors International Inc.6 days ago
Houston, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade applications and services embedding AI and GenAI capabilities.
- Build and evolve APIs, reusable services, cloud-native deployment patterns, monitoring, and operational support for AI-enabled products.
- Lead the technical direction of software engineering and AI initiatives across architecture, engineering quality, and applied AI delivery.
- Mentor software engineers and AI engineers on coding standards, system design, testing, delivery practices, and responsible AI use.
- Define evaluation practices for software quality, model quality, reliability, performance, observability, and compliance.
- Identify high-value AI opportunities and convert them into scalable enterprise engineering outcomes.
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, data engineering, DevSecOps, product management, and business stakeholders.
- Contribute to technical communities, centers of excellence, reusable engineering patterns, and responsible AI adoption.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 8 years of industry experience, including hands-on delivery across software engineering and AI/ML-enabled product development.
- At least 8 years of development experience with languages, frameworks, tooling, APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud-native platforms.
- Experience with Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and JVM-based technologies.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in system design, clean code, testing strategies, code reviews, version control, and maintainable architecture.
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, and monitoring applications on Kubernetes and related cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience designing and operating scalable services, APIs, microservices, or platform components with attention to reliability, performance, and security.
- Practical experience designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring machine learning and GenAI solutions.
- Must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident.
Benefits
- Houston-based contract role with an anticipated 4-month duration.
- Estimated start date of September 21, 2026.