8th Light is looking to solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth for their clients by delivering high-quality technology solutions, including AI-enabled solutions, and providing expert consulting services.
Requirements
- Experience with a variety of languages and frameworks, including but not limited to: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go
- Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features into products or systems
- Used context-appropriate automated testing to inform software design choices and catch bugs
- Experience with DevSecOps & DevOps, MLOps, Infrastructure as Code, and Data Engineering
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles, including scalability, security, reliability, and performance
- Experience with architectural patterns to evaluate tradeoffs and drive clear, documented design rationale
- Familiarity with cloud-based technologies and containerization
Responsibilities
- Rapidly building trust with clients, demonstrating technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives
- Framing ambiguous business problems as solvable workflows and systems, earning leadership buy-in, then design and build solutions that balance pragmatism with long-term scalability
- Guiding technical direction, solving complex problems, and demonstrating best practices while remaining deeply engaged within the codebase
- Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
- Delivering and advise on enterprise-grade AI systems, including RAG pipelines, vector search, and agentic frameworks
- Driving innovation by proactively surfacing new technical approaches and product solutions
- Designing and managing high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements
Other
- 10+ years of experience in a related field, with a track record of success on high-stakes consulting engagements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams
- Ability to travel (although most consulting engagements do not require travel)
- Flexible Annual Leave and a robust L&D programme with a learning budget and in-person learning opportunities
