What are the responsibilities and job description for the AI/ML Lead Engineer position at Photon?
Agentic AI Forward Deployment Engineer / Architect
Dallas, TX / Berkeley Heights, NJ / Atlanta, GA
Job Summary:
- Minimum 6 years (not more than 15 years overall) of experience in designing and development of AI/ML applications.
- Strong handson programming experience (Python required) with the ability to design and implement productionready solutions (experience in JS/NodeJS or .NET/C# is a plus)
- Architecture and systemdesign experience, with a proven track record of translating designs into working code (must still code 50 70% of the time)
- Practical experience implementing AI/ML solutions endtoend, including data preparation, model usage, and integration into applications (using frameworks like ScikitLearn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch)
- Experience designing and building scalable ML/AI systems using APIs, microservices, and eventdriven patterns with direct handson implementation responsibility
- Strong data handling skills, including Pandas/NumPy and working with structured and unstructured data in real systems
- Cloudnative experience (Azure/AWS) with handson deployment, debugging, and performance tuning of AI workloads
- Solid software engineering and DevOps practices, including Git, CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring, and production readiness
- Individual contributor role no people management; must personally design, code, debug, and support solutions