Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WhiteOptics LLC is a market-leading industrial technology company focused on innovative solutions in spaces and lighting. The Senior Software Engineer - AI will lead a high-impact AI engineering team, design and deliver cloud-native solutions, and mentor engineers while driving AI-enabled capabilities from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction of a high impact AI engineering team, staying hands-on and setting the pace
• Design and deliver cloud native, container first services that are built to scale and ready for real enterprise use
• Partner closely with architects and key stakeholders to shape architecture, align on patterns, and translate strategy into practical engineering decisions
• Take AI enabled capabilities from early exploration and proof-of-concept through to secure, reliable, production deployments
• Mentor and coach engineers; Support hiring/onboarding critical talent and strengthening a collaborative culture

Skills

• Strong technical leadership
• Advanced Python engineering (maintainable OOP, typing, async; FastAPI preferred)
• REST APIs and service integrations; cloud delivery (Azure preferred); containers; Kubernetes; modern CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Quality mindset (unit/integration testing, reviews); security fundamentals (AuthN/AuthZ, secure build/deploy)
• Agile collaboration; SQL and NoSQL data stores
• Linux proficiency

Benefits

• Health care
• Dental coverage
• Vision plans
• 401K benefits
• Commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role

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