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PowerSchool
Lead AI Engineer
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Dallas, TX
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Full-Time
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$93K - $170K
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Software Engineering
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August 17th, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
PowerSchool Group LLC is hiring a Lead AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI solutions that enhance personalized education for K-12 students. The role involves creating agentic workflows, RAG applications, and automation systems while leading a team and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure effective AI integration and rapid delivery.
Highlights
- Design and deploy agentic AI workflows, RAG-based applications, document intelligence, and process automation solutions.
- Use modern AI tools and frameworks such as Copilot, Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, NotebookLM, Strands, LangChain, LangGraph, and LlamaIndex.
- Translate business problems into working AI systems with lightweight architectures and quick iteration.
- Develop prompt engineering strategies, orchestration logic, API integrations, data pipelines, and testing/monitoring frameworks.
- Lead a small team of AI engineers and automation specialists through technical mentorship and hands-on contributions.
- Rapidly prototype, validate, and deploy AI solutions with continuous weekly or bi-weekly releases.
- Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 6-10+ years of software engineering experience, with recent hands-on work in AI/LLM systems.
- Experience required in building and deploying LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, automation in production, and cloud deployment on AWS or Azure.
- Desired skills include software deployment, data engineering, RAG architectures, vector databases, workflow automation, and enterprise integrations.
- Compensation range estimated between $92,800 and $170,300 USD, with comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and tuition reimbursement.
Lead AI Engineer Full Description
Compensation & Benefits
PowerSchool offers the following benefits:
- Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
- Comprehensive 401(k) plan
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
- Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage
A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $92,800 - $170,300 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.
