AI and Software Innovation Engineer IV
About The Position
Within Framatome’s Installed Base America Business Unit, the AI and Software Innovation Engineer serves as a full-stack software engineering subject-matter leader, providing programming and consulting services to internal customers. The role modernizes business processes through digital transformation and helps translate business needs into secure, valuable digital solutions that support the safety and performance of the North American nuclear fleet. The engineer owns one or more applications, makes and defends software design decisions, defines technical requirements, breaks work into tasks, and guides features from concept through completion. The role also leads application architecture and long-term technical strategy, identifies technical risks and mitigations, and helps ensure reliable software in safety-critical environments. The engineer collaborates with stakeholders and teams across the organization, mentors newer engineers, and drives alignment on engineering practices and standards. The position involves occasional domestic travel to customer sites and Framatome facilities (less than 15%) and periodic international travel to France, Germany, and other Framatome locations for research and development meetings and coordination on digital initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 7 years of related experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including comfort presenting to internal customers.
- Ability to build and maintain strong interpersonal relationships and work collaboratively.
- Ability to manage tasks effectively for yourself and others.
- Expert-level software development skills building full-stack applications with Python, C#, TypeScript, CSS, and modern frameworks such as Vue or React.
- Experience architecting and deploying AI/ML solutions, including leveraging LLMs and building AI tools and agents for complex tasks.
- Experience designing and governing data architecture, documenting data structures, creating ETLs, and producing reports.
- Experience establishing or maturing DevSecOps practices across teams or organizations, including integrating security into CI/CD pipelines, automating security scans, managing vulnerabilities, and ensuring development-lifecycle compliance.
- Experience implementing secure coding standards and collaborating with security stakeholders to reduce risk proactively.
- Experience planning and leading large-scale system upgrades, platform modernizations, or technology migrations, including assessing risk, coordinating teams, creating phased strategies, and maintaining continuity for mission-critical applications.
- Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures on Azure, AWS, or similar platforms, including evaluating cloud-native services, leading migrations, defining infrastructure patterns, and ensuring resilience, performance, and cost-effective operation.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with mobile development using native technologies, React Native, or other frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Write code to implement features according to specifications and designs.
- Verify software through testing, code reviews, and documentation.
- Identify systemic technical risks, propose mitigation strategies, and ensure high-reliability software in safety-critical environments.
- Lead the identification of operational challenges and requirements with stakeholders, using off-the-shelf products such as LLMs and machine-learning tools, Framatome software, and emerging technologies.
- Research emerging technologies and present findings to expand team knowledge.
- Own part or all of one or more applications and make strategic technical decisions.
- Define technical requirements, break work into tasks, and guide feature implementation from concept to completion.
- Lead architectural design and long-term technical strategy for one or more applications.
- Guide and mentor newer engineers through best practices, code reviews, technical support, onboarding, and reinforcement of team standards.
- Drive alignment across teams and ensure engineering practices and standards are consistently applied.
- Translate high-level business needs into scalable, long-term digital solutions with measurable impact.
Benefits
- Multiple medical plan options
- Dental and vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Long- and short-term disability coverage
- Optional supplemental plans, including critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, and dependent life
- 401(k) with employer match
- Up to 3 weeks of vacation
- 8 sick days
- 13 paid holidays annually
- Lifestyle spending account
- Employer-paid mental health support
- Education reimbursement
- Professional development opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Parental leave
- Employee assistance programs
- Annual incentives and performance bonuses may be included
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
