AI Native Developer

Duration - 90 Days Initial Engagement (20 Hours/week), 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.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Client Delivery & On-site Presence

• 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

AI-Native Development

• 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

POD Coordination

• 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

Must-Have

• 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

Strong Advantages

• 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 ABOUT ISHIR

ISHIR is a digital innovation and enterprise AI services provider. We work with startups and enterprises to shape the future through accelerated innovation, deep technical expertise, access to global digital talent and a passion for complex problem-solving. With our help, our clients overcome their most difficult digital challenges leveraging AI. We are not just consultants, we are partners in our clients' success, assisting them with re(gaining) competitive edge by identifying opportunities for differentiation, industry disruption, scalable innovation, and go-to-market strategies that deliver successful outcomes. At ISHIR, we help bold businesses accelerate innovation through Talent, Speed-to-Market, and AI. We help make an impact by solving real problems using innovation, improved customer experiences and the right technologies. As an ISHIR employee, you will get the advanced training you need to be successful, and the opportunity to apply it. You must be passionate about technology, crave responsibility, and be eager to apply your knowledge to real business solutions for our startup and enterprise customers. These are the qualities of a person destined for success at ISHIR.