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Lead AI Software Engineer

Tricentis
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 4/18/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/17/2026
Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Team Enablement

  • Act as the technical lead for one or more teams, setting engineering direction and ensuring high technical standards.
  • Provide hands-on architectural guidance, unblocking complex technical challenges, and reviewing critical designs.
  • Mentor Senior and Mid-level Engineers through structured coaching, design reviews, and ongoing technical feedback.
  • Drive and facilitate technical decision-making, including trade-offs between scalability, reliability, cost, and time-to-market.
  • Lead and contribute to lunch & learns, technical deep dives, and internal knowledge-sharing initiatives.
  • Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Leaders to translate business goals into executable technical strategies.
  • Proactively identify gaps in team capability and influence hiring, onboarding, and skill development strategies.

Architecture, Implementation & Quality

  • Lead rapid experimentation initiatives, ensuring learnings are clearly documented and communicated to stakeholders.
  • Define and standardize testing strategies for AI systems, including unit, integration, regression, and evaluation-based testing.
  • Ensure consistency and quality across implementations through code reviews, architectural reviews, and reference implementations.
  • Embed deeply in business domains, proactively shaping product direction through technical insight.
  • Identify systemic technical issues and drive long-term, sustainable solutions rather than short-term fixes.
  • Champion continuous improvement in engineering practices, tooling, and workflows.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Expertise

  • 6 years of experience with Python in production environments.
  • 3 years of experience designing, deploying, and operating language model–based solutions in production.
  • Strong experience utilizing AI coding Assistants (Github Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) in daily workflow.
  • Working knowledge of emerging AI technologies like MCP, A2A, and GenAI LLM’s.
  • Proven ability to develop systems that balance innovation with reliability and maintainability.

Production & Platform Experience

  • Expert-level understanding of software engineering best practices, including architecture patterns, CI/CD, testing, and code quality.
  • Experience designing and operating data pipelines and data management systems at scale.
  • Strong understanding of security, privacy, and compliance considerations in AI-enabled systems.
  • Extensive experience with containers and orchestration in production environments.
  • Ability to diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving AI systems.

Communication & Influence

  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, product leaders, and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Comfortable acting as the technical voice of the team in cross-functional discussions.
  • Ability to influence without authority and align the team around a shared technical vision.
  • Comfortable collaborating across teams to enable your teams’ delivery.

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Tricentis is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, gender, religious affiliation, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or physical and mental disability and other statuses protected by law.

Global Sanctions Compliance

We comply with all applicable global sanctions and export control laws. Candidates must not be listed on any government restricted party lists (including OFAC SDN List and U.S. Commerce Department restricted lists) and must certify that their employment would not violate any sanctions or export control regulations. Candidates must notify us of any changes to their status during the application process or subsequent employment.

U.S. Work Authorization

This role is not eligible for employer-sponsored work visas. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.

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