Lead AI Software Engineer at Panorama Education

Description

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 all 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.

About the Role:

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.

Responsibilities:

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

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

Has 6+ years experience developing production-level code in Ruby on Rails, Vue.js & TypeScript

Has 3+ years experience with web app development and deployment

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

Benefits

The “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.