8th Light is looking to solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth for their clients by optimizing digital products through product strategy innovation, experiential design, AI solutions, and deep engineering expertise.
Requirements
- Demonstrated long-term success on high-stakes consulting engagements across multiple language paradigms, stacks, ecosystems, technical environments, and client industries
- Led the development and delivery of production-grade software using a variety of languages and frameworks, including but not limited to: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go
- Evaluated and strategically applied AI-assistive development tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality
- Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features into products or systems (e.g., recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, predictive analytics)
- Used context-appropriate automated testing to inform software design choices and catch bugs
- Successfully led modernization efforts to align legacy systems with short and long-term business needs
- Delivering and advising on enterprise-grade AI systems, including RAG pipelines, vector search, and agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Crew AI, AutoGen, n8n), ensuring scalable, production-ready solutions that empower developers and align with business outcomes
Responsibilities
- Rapidly building trust with clients, demonstrating technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives
- Guiding technical direction, solving complex problems, and demonstrating best practices while remaining deeply engaged within the codebase
- Advising clients on architecture, scalability and platform evolution, connecting technical decisions to product and business outcomes
- Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
- Designing and managing high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements
- Coaching client engineering teams, transferring knowledge and leveling up practices
- Demonstrating leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development
Other
- You’ve shown long-term repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 10+ years
- You are a trusted expert and leader, often called upon to guide ambiguous initiatives and architect scalable solutions
- In your previous experience, you have brought a blend of deep consulting acumen, technical expertise, and product thinking that drives measurable and impactful outcomes
- Actively sought out and effectively given feedback
- Building a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is an ongoing journey, and we’re excited to keep learning and growing together
