Lead Software Engineer & AI Architect

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About the RoleWere looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer and AI Architect to strengthen our team with deep technical expertise. You will influence our software engineering direction help redesign and modernize key systems and drive the integration of advanced AI capabilities to significantly improve automation across our global factory backbone (1500 servers).

This is a hands-on role where you will combine strong software architecture leadership with practical AI implementation to reduce manual support significantly increase automation and keep our factories secure.

What Youll Do

• Influence technical direction architecture decisions code quality security and pull request reviews
• Lead the redesign and modernization of existing systems from monoliths toward scalable distributed architectures
• Design and build production-grade agentic AI solutions using LLMs (local cloud) RAG and intelligent automation
• Integrate AI into current workflows monitoring and factory systems
• Continuously drive improvement with new ideas and concepts
• Mentor and upskill junior and mid-level engineers
• Deliver secure high-performance and observable solutions with clear business impact
• Design and implement CI/CD
• Lead observability strategy and implementation (metrics tracing alerting)
• Whatever else you find interesting and have bandwidth to help with

What Were Looking For

• 10 years of strong software engineering experience with excellent architecture and system design skills
• Proven ability to redesign and modernize complex mission-critical systems
• Strong applied AI expertise: building production agentic systems MCP RAG pipelines and integrating local cloud LLMs
• Deep hands-on proficiency /C# SQL & NoSQL databases and Kubernetes/distributed systems
• Experience with TCP UDP QUIC HTTP/3 gRPC DNS load balancing service discovery NAT traversal
• Strong focus on code quality security performance and mentoring
• Strong understanding of network data transfer optimization load balancing connection management multiplexing and flow/congestion control
• Experience with distributed storage systems (e.g. CEPH)
• Strong experience working with encrypted data including secure data transfer between systems while ensuring data consistency transactional integrity and atomicity

The ideal candidate will have strong depth in several of these areas and demonstrate a genuine eagerness to grow in the others. We value learning agility and are happy to invest in someone who is curious and driven.

Our Stack:

Linux (Ubuntu) Kubernetes Azure /C#/C/Rust Azure DevOps Kafka Grafana/Prometheus Ansible Python MS SQL PostgreSQL Cosmos DB Windows Server PowerShell and various internal tools. We are actively expanding our use of modern AI tooling.

Nice-to-Haves:

Experience in enterprise/industrial/manufacturing environments open-source contributions or large-scale observability/automation projects. RUST/JAVA/GO/

This role combines deep technical leadership AI innovation and hands-on development. Youll directly shape the future of our global PC manufacturing backbone while growing a strong engineering team.

If youre a pragmatic architect who loves building reliable intelligent systems and mentoring others we want to talk.

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