At Solution Street, our employees have many opportunities to work on interesting, challenging projects supporting clients one-on-one in various domains primarily in the commercial space. Our company culture thrives on our five core values: Honesty, Respect, Transparency, Dependability, and FUN! They're embedded in everything we do and how we do it! We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who can design and develop web application solutions in a variety of languages.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Python and AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy intelligent systems that power real-world products. In this role, you will work at the intersection of machine learning, software engineering, and data, taking AI models from concept to production at scale. You will collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, ethical, and high-performing AI solutions that create measurable business impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and deploy machine learning and AI models for production systems.
- Build end-to-end AI pipelines, including data ingestion, training, evaluation, and inference.
- Optimize models for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
- Work with large datasets and ensure data quality, versioning, and governance.
- Integrate AI/ML solutions into existing backend and frontend systems.
- Implement MLOps best practices (CI/CD, monitoring, retraining, model versioning).
- Evaluate and experiment with LLMs, generative AI, and classical ML techniques.
- Ensure AI systems meet security, privacy, and ethical standards.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions.
- Stay current with advances in AI research, tooling, and industry trends.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with 3+ years focused on AI/ML systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with production-grade codebases.
- Hands-on experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn).
- Experience deploying models to production using cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Solid understanding of ML fundamentals (supervised/unsupervised learning, evaluation metrics, bias, overfitting).
- Experience building APIs and services for model inference.
- Familiarity with data pipelines, feature engineering, and model lifecycle management.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work cross-functionally
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, or fine-tuning models.
- Knowledge of MLOps tools (MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI).
- Experience with distributed systems and large-scale data processing (Spark, Kafka).
- Exposure to vector databases and embedding-based search.
- Background in applied AI domains such as NLP, computer vision, or recommender systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.
About Solution Street
Solution Street, a software engineering firm, was founded by a software developer who envisioned a safe haven for software engineers who wanted to work on interesting, fun projects. Since 2002, we’ve stuck by this principle and as a result, we’ve developed long, lasting relationships with our clients and have a team of great developers who love what they do.
We enjoy working with cutting edge technologies and providing solutions to complex business problems. Our employees are experts in building large, highly scalable and well performing web applications using many technologies. We are Microsoft and AWS partners.
At Solution Street we value all employees and job candidates as unique individuals, and we welcome the variety of experiences they bring to our organization. As such, we have a strict non-discrimination policy. We believe everyone should be treated equally regardless of race, sex, gender identification, sexual orientation, national origin, native language, religion, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.
What's In It for You?
Depending on the position and the candidate’s location, not all roles are available for W-2 employment. In some cases, we may consider engagement through a 1099 contractor arrangement. We offer a relaxed, fun, flexible, working environment with competitive salary + bonus + 100% paid health/dental to employee + life insurance + PTO + long-term and short-term disability + 401(k). Solution Street automatically contributes to employees' 401(k) plans. We are passionate about technology and we share out thoughts and discoveries in our monthly newsletters. To subscribe to our latest blog, please visit: https://us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6a3b68411070f7dab1adb3a8b&id=f0193ac93e. Solution Street is also a sponsor of NOVA SART (Northern Virginia Software Architecture Round Table Group). Please visit www.solutionstreet.com or check out our Face page https://www.facebook.com/solutionstreet for more information regarding our company culture, the charities we support, and the fun events we do together!
If you are a talented software engineer looking for a challenge, apply now!
Flexible work from home options available.