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CentralReach is seeking a hands-on Director of AI Product Development to lead the technical development of AI applications within their AI Foundry. The ideal candidate will oversee AI application architecture, development, and quality assurance while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions within the autism and IDD care software sector.
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Job Summary
CentralReach's AI team operates as an AI Foundry, rapidly building, validating, and scaling AI-enabled product capabilities.
The Principal Software Engineer, AI Applications will set the technical bar for how AI-powered product experiences are designed, built, evaluated, and operated.
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.
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CentralReach is seeking a hands-on Director of AI Product Development to lead the technical development of AI applications within their AI Foundry. The ideal candidate will oversee AI application architecture, development, and quality assurance while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions within the autism and IDD care software sector.
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Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Technical leadership for AI applications
Hands-on AI application development
LLM-enabled workflows and RAG
Establish engineering standards for AI
Design safeguards and safe failure modes
Production readiness for AI applications
Nice-to-have
Cross-functional team collaboration
Mentoring AI engineers
Scalable AI-enabled product capabilities
Key Requirements
Senior-most engineer on the AI team
Experience with AI application development
Experience with LLM-enabled workflows, RAG, summarization, classification, and automation patterns
Experience with prompt/tooling patterns, service templates, evaluation utilities, and safety layers