Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML

WhiteOptics LLC, a market-leading industrial technology company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML. This role involves leading a high-impact AI engineering team, designing cloud-native solutions, and collaborating with stakeholders to implement AI-driven software across the organization.

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

Requirements:

• Strong technical leadership
• 8 years of experience in Advanced Python engineering (maintainable OOP, typing, async; FastAPI preferred)
• 4-5 years of experience in AI/ML methodologies
• 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