Software Engineer; AI

Staff Software Engineer (AI Applications)

Location:

Beachwood, OH.

Shift: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm (Onsite 4 days a week) Summary Statement:
As a senior member of the Software Engineering team, you will lead diverse development teams on large complex projects by defining and implementing architectures and strategies that will create our next generation of innovative solutions for our customers. The ideal candidate will use AI in Application Development and AI tools to solve problems. What You Will Be Doing:
As a staff software engineer, you will take on a leadership role in defining IT process & technology strategies with senior management. By incorporating new emerging technologies and trends, and taking into consideration our existing architecture and strategies you will create, enhance, and optimize our customer solutions roadmaps. Providing cross-functional leadership and working with business leaders, architects and software engineers you will design and build high performing and scalable systems.

  Penske Responsibilities:
• Leadership role in defining IT Process and Technology strategies, familiarity with emerging technology trends, defining a roadmap and building consensus with Senior IT Leadership.
• Meeting with Senior & Mid-Level Management to align business process initiatives and strategies with current and planned Penske Technology Architecture.
• Team leadership in the evaluation of Application Development Tools/Techniques/ Approaches, determine impact on strategic objectives, and manage overall implementation.
• Lead team to resolve complex technical problems (that may consist of multiple tiers of technology and/or communications/integration layers) and develop/implement corrective measures.
• As part of recommending a technical solution, evaluate and research third-party packages and recommend customization and deployment opportunities.
• Participate as a senior member of the Technology team with a diverse set of skills to help make technology decisions, mentor and supervise other developers, to make technical decisions and contribute to technical future of the company.
• Assist with the architectural design of projects, provide expertise to project teams and ensure adherence to established architectural standards and principles.
• Evaluate and champion the integration of AI/ML capabilities into existing and new solutions, identifying opportunities to leverage large language models, generative AI tools, and intelligent automation to enhance customer and business outcomes.
• Champion Dev Ops culture and practices, driving CI/CD pipeline strategy, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and continuous improvement across the software delivery lifecycle using Azure Dev Ops.
• Develop training curriculum to keep developers up to date on techniques, processes & technology.
• Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology Penske

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering. 
• 12+ years’ experience of appropriate programming languages (C#, .NET/ASP.NET Core) and core frameworks/technologies
• 5+ years defining application architecture and system integration requirements on multi-tiered application systems.
• 5+ years of experience with distributed database environments and related database concepts.
• 5+ years leading multiple large software projects using the Agile development methodology.
• Diverse experience in architecting solutions for on premise and cloud deployments
• Full stack development experience in technologies such as React, Angular, jQuery, JavaScript, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, RESTful API's.
• Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks, tools, and platforms (e.g., Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services) and experience integrating AI-driven features into enterprise applications.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Azure Dev Ops, including CI/CD pipeline development, release management, and infrastructure as code using tools such as…