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AI/ML Lead Engineer

Photon
Dallas, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 5/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/21/2026

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

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