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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior SW Engineer, AI Automation - **Company:** Dentsply Sirona - **Location:** Waltham, MA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $176,000.0 - $198,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** A/B Testing, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Code Generation, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Information Leak Prevention, Distributed Systems, Github, Performance Tuning, Service Design, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Data Logging, Data Processing, Prompt Engineering, Model Validation, Gitlab, Containerization, Integration Tests, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform, Dynatrace, Docker, Jenkins - **Published:** September 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/E9B401A9F32443A787B689233BEDBBB6/job/ ## About the Role * BS or MS in computer science or a related engineering discipline. Years and Type of Experience: * 8+ years as a Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer or comparable role. * Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives, driving architecture decisions, and delivering production-grade software systems. * Proven track record designing and delivering production-grade systems and driving technical excellence across projects. * Hands-on experience integrating AI components (RAG, embeddings/vector DBs, light agents, MCP-style integrations) into engineering workflows. * Experience with distributed systems, APIs and service-level design. * Experience contributing to operational readiness, incident response, and service reliability practices. Key Skills, Knowledge & Capabilities: * Proven pragmatic system and service design skills at program scope. * Deep understanding of scalability, performance optimization and cost trade-offs for AI and platform services. * Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerization (Docker) and exposure to Kubernetes. * Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab), feature-flagging, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/ARM). * Working knowledge of RAG pipelines, embedding stores/vector DBs, prompt engineering and retrieval-quality evaluation. * Strong testing and observability discipline: unit/integration tests, logging, metrics and distributed tracing. * Awareness of data privacy, access controls and secure handling of embeddings/logs. * Strong collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams. * Excellent English communication skills (written and spoken); German advantageous. * Regulated-industry (medical device) experience is a plus. Nice to have * Experience integrating AI checks into CI/CD (policy checks, automated test generation, documentation synthesis). * Familiarity with model evaluation, offline/online metrics and A/B testing for ML features. * Experience with MCP or similar context-sharing protocols. ## Description Dentsply Sirona's software engineering and cloud operations team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to focused on AI-driven automation across one or more products, services, or platforms. This is a senior individual contributor role combining hands-on software engineering, technical expertise, and architectural influence. You will design, build, and operate AI-powered automation capabilities, collaborate across teams, and help drive responsible adoption of AI technologies through engineering best practices, governance, and operational excellence., Technical Leadership & Delivery * Lead the technical design and implementation of AI automation initiatives within one or more epics or projects. * Collaborate with Product, UX, QA, Security, and Cloud Operations teams to deliver high-quality solutions. * Influence technical direction through architecture discussions, design reviews, and engineering best practices. * Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing. Technical Implementation & Development * Design and implement AI-enabled automation workflows for parts of the software development lifecycle (requirements/story generation, documentation scaffolding, code scaffolding) within the program area. * Design and implement RAG pipelines, lightweight intelligent agents, and MCP or equivalent integrations to support engineering workflows. * Integrate AI-assisted code generation and validation into CI/CD with guardrails, automated checks, feature flags, staged rollouts and safe rollback conditions. * Ensure human-in-the-loop checkpoints, prompt and policy guardrails, provenance/traceability, and least-privilege access controls for embeddings and logs. * Prepare runbooks, dashboards and alerts; participate in incident responses and contribute to post-incident reviews for owned services. * Monitor and optimize reliability, latency, correctness and cost of AI features; manage model drift and retrieval quality metrics. * Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging AI technologies to improve developer productivity, quality and efficiency. Governance, safety & quality * Define and enforce team-level AI governance: data handling policies, retention, access control and regulatory traceability where required. * Establish detection of metrics and validation processes to detect hallucinations, data leakage and model drift; automate tests where feasible. * Ensure delivered features include automated tests, documentation, and observability (logs, metrics, traces). ## Related Videos - [GitLab CI pipelines for a whole company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/143-gitlab-ci-pipelines-for-a-whole-company) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1577-blueprints-for-success-steering-a-global-data-ai-architecture) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) - [Inside Mercedes-Benz: 140 Years of Heritage meet AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100054-inside-mercedes-benz-140-years-of-heritage-meet-ai) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai)