Descrizione:
Central Reach is a leading provider of autism and IDD care software for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), multidisciplinary therapy, and special education. Trusted by more than 200,000 users, we enable therapy providers, educators, and employers to scale the way they deliver ABA and related therapies with innovative technology, market‑leading industry expertise, and world‑class customer satisfaction.Central Reach’s AI team operates as an AI Foundry: a cross‑functional group that rapidly builds, validates, and scales AI‑enabled product capabilities.This role is hands‑on and deeply engaged across the early stages of development of AI applications, from early prototypes and pilots through production hardening and scale. The successful candidate partners closely with AI product builders, product organization leaders and Dev Ops to translate customer problems into reliable AI features that integrate seamlessly with Central Reach’s core workflows, establishing engineering standards for AI application development: evaluation and quality thresholds, observability, guardrails, and performance management.Key AccountabilitiesServe as the technical lead for AI application development within the AI Foundry, setting standards for code quality, architecture, and deliveryLead by doing: design and implement core AI application components, critical services, and integration layersMentor AI engineers; raise the bar on engineering rigor and AI‑specific best practicesEstablish quality thresholds and release criteria (accuracy, latency, reliability, cost, and user trust)Design safeguards and “safe failure modes”: fallback behaviors, confidence thresholds, user controls, content filtering, and transparency patternsAI Application Development (Hands‑On)Build AI‑powered product capabilities end‑to‑end (service + workflow integration + instrumentation), including LLM‑enabled workflows, RAG, summarization, classification, and automation patternsBuild and maintain shared libraries/components for AI application development (prompt/tooling patterns, service templates, evaluation utilities, safety layers)Own technical readiness for production: reliability, observability, performance tuning, and incident response preparednessCollaborate with platform engineering and Dev Ops to ensure CI/CD and environment consistency, scaling strategies, cost controls for inference, and secrets management and secure data handlingCross‑Functional Delivery & IntegrationPartner tightly with AI product builders and workflow product owners to translate validated prototypes into production implementationsCollaborate with core engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into Central Reach’s main platformsStrategic Direction & InnovationIdentify and prioritize foundational investments that increase delivery velocity and reduce long‑term maintenance: reusable components, platform primitives, and standardized patternsEvaluate build‑vs‑buy decisions for AI tooling and recommend approaches aligned to CR constraintsStay current with AI application engineering practices and help translate emerging techniques into safe, valuable product capabilitiesDesired Skills and ExperienceBachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with principal‑level scope and demonstrated technical leadershipStrong experience building and operating production distributed systems and backend servicesDemonstrated hands‑on experience delivering AI/ML‑powered product features (LLMs and/or traditional ML), including evaluation and monitoringExperience with retrieval systems and search relevance (RAG, embeddings, indexing, ranking, evaluation)Strong system‑design skills: APIs, data flows, integration patterns, performance and reliability trade‑offsExperience with observability and operational excellence (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, incident response)Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to product, design, and executive stakeholdersExperience in a healthcare Saa S environmentFamiliarity with multi‑tenant architectures and enterprise access control modelsExperience building internal platforms/tooling that improve developer experience and standardize best practicesBase Salary Range $180,000 - $200,000 USDWe offer competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, generous PTO, 401(k) matching, and paid parental leave to our full‑time employees. Our team members also enjoy hybrid work schedules, career development support, wellness programs, and opportunities to give back through CR Cares™, our community engagement initiative.As set forth in Central Reach’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.