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# Senior AI Software Engineer

- **Company:** EMICS, INC.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cursor, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Enterprise Software Applications, Claude Code
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-ai-software-engineer--10ffb48e-3243-4f5c-9c3e-9e2487c74891

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Customer Relations, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Development, Software Engineering, Integrated Circuits (ICs), Prototyping, State Laws and Regulations, Distributed Computing, * A working operating model for our forward-deployed practice - how we select customers, how we measure learning, how we decide what graduates, * 10+ years of engineering experience including significant time spent embedded with customers - solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, founding-engineer-at-an-enterprise-startup, or equivalent

 * Has converted at least one demo into recurring revenue and can tell the story of which customer behavior changed your hypothesis
 * Has retired your own prototypes on purpose, when the learning was complete, before sunk cost set in
 * Comfortable shipping throwaway code to learn - and disciplined about not pulling it into core systems prematurely
 * Has used Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent in real production work and can articulate where you let the model lead and where you stop and rewrite
 * Strong written and verbal communication - you will write decision memos that we read, and you will lead customer conversations without just telling customers what they want to hear
 * Holds substantive opinions on software design and forward-deployed practice

## Description

We have been expanding our impact since 2012, building the product depth, customer relationships, and operational track record required for this work. For engineering, this is a build phase: we are invested in growing the team and giving senior engineers room to define how AI changes the way software gets built here. Much of K-12 software grows by acquisition and cost-cutting. We grow by deeply understanding district pain and building for the future of K12 operations., * You have a substantive opinion on why "forward-deployed engineering" is having a moment, and where the trend is over-hyped

 * You have prior K-12, public-sector, or regulated-industry experience - or a story about what you would learn fast in a regulated context
 * You have a point of view on the future of AI-assisted enterprise software that goes beyond the obvious

How We Work

 * Small enough that you'll have real impact, large enough that the work matters
 * AI-assisted by default - we expect senior engineers to design the loop, not just ride it
 * Direct, low-ceremony, high-context communication
 * Customers are not abstractions - you will be in their offices, in their data, in their words
 * We have a written strategy. We argue with it, in writing, in real time
 * Frontier Force has its own operating model: small team, customer-attached, accountable for learning rather than feature throughput