AI Native Developer

ISHIR•Plano, TX

23h•Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring a Senior AI Native Developer to join an active client engagement in the restaurant technology space. This is a hands-on, on-site role with a dual mandate: driving development execution as a Senior Engineer and acting as a client-embedded technical liaison — a Product Owner / Technical Lead hybrid — working alongside the client's CTO, stakeholders, and ISHIR's India-based development team. This role suits someone who thrives in ambiguity, translates business requirements into shipped code, and is equally comfortable presenting to executive stakeholders and writing production-grade AI features in the same week.

Requirements

8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 2 years building AI/ML or LLM-integrated products
Proven ability to work directly with clients — comfortable in executive meetings and boardroom-level presentations
Strong full-stack background: Python or Node.js backend; React or equivalent frontend
Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI) — prompt engineering, RAG, tool/function calling
Solid agile delivery experience: sprint planning, backlog grooming, coordinating distributed engineering teams
US-based with ability to travel on-site to client locations (primarily Dallas, TX area)
Exceptional written and verbal communication — you write as clearly as you code

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in a client-facing technical lead, senior PO, or solutions architect capacity at a services or consulting firm
Familiarity with restaurant technology, hospitality SaaS, or B2B platform products
Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native deployments (Azure preferred)
Hands-on with agentic AI frameworks — LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar
Anthropic Claude Certified Architect (CCA-F) or equivalent AI platform certification

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary on-site technical SPOC for the client engagement — attend stand-ups, sprint reviews, and stakeholder sessions
Represent ISHIR's delivery team with clarity and professionalism; communicate progress, risks, and decisions to CTO and CFO-level stakeholders
Facilitate product discovery, requirements refinement, and architecture review sessions on-site
Own the client relationship day-to-day, proactively flagging issues before they escalate
Design and build AI-powered product features using LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic architectures
Integrate AI capabilities — OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI — into production web and API systems
Write clean, testable, production-grade code across the full stack (frontend through backend through data layer)
Own feature delivery end-to-end: from acceptance criteria through deployment and post-go-live monitoring
Collaborate daily with ISHIR's India-based developers and QA across time zones via Azure DevOps, Slack, and video standups
Translate client decisions and feedback into clear development tasks and backlog items for the offshore team
Review pull requests and maintain code quality standards across a distributed team
Flag scope changes, technical blockers, and delivery risks to the Program Manager proactively