Lead AI Software Engineer

Lead AI Software Engineer Listing

Panorama is a fast-growing national technology company focused on radically improving education. More than 1,500 school systems serving 15 million students across 50 states have adopted our platform to understand students’ academic and social-emotional strengths and to identify those in need of additional support. School systems turn to our suite of tools to ensure that every child gets the support they need, including school climate and social-emotional learning surveys, tiered intervention planning, and professional development.

Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States, in-person from our Boston/San Francisco offices, or a hybrid option. Our culture is fully remote-first.

This Lead AI Software Engineer role will focus primarily on Panorama’s generative AI products, Solara and Class Companion. Solara is a secure, district-customizable AI platform that helps educators quickly generate resources like intervention plans, family communications, and lesson ideas, all while safeguarding student privacy. Class Companion, integrated within Solara, brings real-time AI feedback and tutoring into classrooms, offering instant rubric-aligned feedback, individual student support, and educator insights.

In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of AI-powered features across these products to support educators in improving student outcomes.

Our Lead Software Engineers are engineering leaders who use their technical skills and knowledge to support a squad of engineers through mentorship, collaboration, and role modeling. They serve as bridges among engineering and partners across product, design, and other Panorama teammates. They continuously work to align their squad with Panorama’s broader goals, and they contribute to the creation and evolution of those goals.

Lead engineers work as engineers on a squad, and they influence the team by elevating voices, mentoring, modeling best practices, and building alignment towards key technical and organizational decisions.

• Design and deliver generative AI-powered features using Anthropic’s Large Language Models through AWS Bedrock
• Evaluate emerging technologies to inform and accelerate product innovation
• Collaborate within a cross-functional team to design, build, test, review, debug, and deploy code that serves students and educators
• Mentor teammates by sharing technical expertise, best practices, and domain knowledge.
• Partner closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to incorporate diverse perspectives and ensure alignment with company goals
• Share industry and Panorama best practices to strengthen squad strategy and improve delivery outcomes
• Foster an inclusive culture of open feedback and idea-sharing, enabling teammates to contribute their perspectives and experiences to build stronger products

• Has 6+ years experience developing production-level code in Ruby on Rails, Vue.js & Type Script
• Has 3+ years experience with web app development and deploymentli>
• Has 2+ years of hands-on experience building integrations with Large Language Models (e.g., OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, or Google Gemini)
• Has experience rapidly prototyping and iterating on new ideas to validate product concepts with diverse stakeholders
• Has experience breaking down and shaping the scope and technical requirements of a series of several projects to help optimize for overall team delivery
• Has experience working on a cross-functional team of engineers and non-engineers

Our “Base Salary” range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position across all US locations. Determining this anticipated Base Salary range involves considering many factors in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: unique skill sets, experience, training, performance, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Additionally, our anticipated Base Salary determination is just one component of Panorama’s competitive total rewards strategy, including annual bonus or commission awards, equity awards, and other region-specific health and welfare benefits.

Lead AI Software Eng Salary Range:
Min - 204,000 Mid - $240,000, Max - $300,000

Staff AI Softward Eng Salary Range:
Min - 233,750 Mid - $275,000, Max - $343,750

Panorama Education is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive company because we serve students, educators, and families from diverse backgrounds and identities across the country; we’ve seen how our product and impact are strengthened the more we reflect that diversity. In addition, we have found (and we believe the research) that diverse teams are higher-performing, and we embrace the varied perspectives that our team members share with each other.

As such, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Panorama also has a policy on maintaining a drug-free workplace.