VMC Soft Technologies, Inc
AI Engineering Lead
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This role is for an "AI Engineering Lead" in Houston, TX, with a contract length of "unknown" and a pay rate of "unknown." Key skills include cloud-native development, CI/CD pipelines, AI systems, and agile software development. Experience with conversational agents and cybersecurity standards is required.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
February 25, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
On-site
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Houston, TX
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Data Privacy #Security #Monitoring #Scala #Observability #Code Reviews #Strategy #Agile #API (Application Programming Interface) #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #Logging #Microservices #Leadership #Programming #Cloud #Cybersecurity
Role description
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• Role : AI Engineering Lead
Location : Houston, TX
Job Description :
Focus Areas:
· Lead the pod’s day-to-day development and technical decisions.
· Translate product objectives into implementation plans and sprint goals.
· Directly manage developers and AI engineers.
Leadership & Collaboration Expectations
· Ability and willingness to collaborate with Perth based Engagement Lead on a daily basis supporting the discovery phase of initiatives
· Lead technical design decisions and resolve blockers across pods.
· Manage code reviews, shared modules, and ensure engineering consistency.
· Drive agile development practices including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and velocity tracking.
· Foster a culture of growth mindset, technical excellence, encouraging experimentation, learning from failure, and continuous improvement.
· Support onboarding and mentoring of developers and AI engineers.
· Engage with business stakeholders when needed (Inform Engagement Lead).
Communication & Stakeholder Engagement Expectations
· Work closely with the Tech Chapter Lead and Engagement Lead to align technical decisions with the AI platform strategy, business goals, and cross-team dependencies.
· Represent the pod in technical forums, showcases, and architecture reviews.
· Communicate risks, trade-offs, and technical constraints clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
· Ensure timely updates to the Engagement Lead on technical decisions and stakeholder conversations.
Technical Skills
Engineering & Architecture
· Strong experience with cloud-native development, including secure handling of secrets, environment variables, and service configurations.
· Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines for AI systems and microservices.
· Familiarity with team-based access control, code ownership, and repository governance.
· Skilled in modern programming languages and infrastructure-as-code practices.
· Ability to manage API specifications and service integrations across platforms.
· Experience agile software development
AI & Agentic Systems
· Experience designing and deploying conversational agents and multi-agent systems.
· Capable of orchestrating agent workflows, managing context, and integrating external data sources.
· Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns and scalable inference strategies.
· Awareness of enterprise data privacy and cybersecurity standards.
· Responsible handling of user interactions and logs, with clear boundaries for data retention and observability.
Tooling & Observability
· Use of observability tools for tracing, logging, and performance monitoring.
· Familiarity with API testing and authentication flows across service layers.
Note : If you are interested please share me your resumes to Dhamu@vmcsofttech.com or else reach me at 4804076920.
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Location : Houston, TX
Job Description :
Focus Areas:
· Lead the pod’s day-to-day development and technical decisions.
· Translate product objectives into implementation plans and sprint goals.
· Directly manage developers and AI engineers.
Leadership & Collaboration Expectations
· Ability and willingness to collaborate with Perth based Engagement Lead on a daily basis supporting the discovery phase of initiatives
· Lead technical design decisions and resolve blockers across pods.
· Manage code reviews, shared modules, and ensure engineering consistency.
· Drive agile development practices including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and velocity tracking.
· Foster a culture of growth mindset, technical excellence, encouraging experimentation, learning from failure, and continuous improvement.
· Support onboarding and mentoring of developers and AI engineers.
· Engage with business stakeholders when needed (Inform Engagement Lead).
Communication & Stakeholder Engagement Expectations
· Work closely with the Tech Chapter Lead and Engagement Lead to align technical decisions with the AI platform strategy, business goals, and cross-team dependencies.
· Represent the pod in technical forums, showcases, and architecture reviews.
· Communicate risks, trade-offs, and technical constraints clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
· Ensure timely updates to the Engagement Lead on technical decisions and stakeholder conversations.
Technical Skills
Engineering & Architecture
· Strong experience with cloud-native development, including secure handling of secrets, environment variables, and service configurations.
· Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines for AI systems and microservices.
· Familiarity with team-based access control, code ownership, and repository governance.
· Skilled in modern programming languages and infrastructure-as-code practices.
· Ability to manage API specifications and service integrations across platforms.
· Experience agile software development
AI & Agentic Systems
· Experience designing and deploying conversational agents and multi-agent systems.
· Capable of orchestrating agent workflows, managing context, and integrating external data sources.
· Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns and scalable inference strategies.
· Awareness of enterprise data privacy and cybersecurity standards.
· Responsible handling of user interactions and logs, with clear boundaries for data retention and observability.
Tooling & Observability
· Use of observability tools for tracing, logging, and performance monitoring.
· Familiarity with API testing and authentication flows across service layers.
Note : If you are interested please share me your resumes to Dhamu@vmcsofttech.com or else reach me at 4804076920.
