Lead AI Software Engineer

Requisition ID: 181643


Job Level: Senior Level


Home District/Group: DHO Information Technology Group


Department: Technology Group


Market: Corporate Home Office


Employment Type: Full Time


Position Overview

Kiewit is looking for top talent to join our fast-paced and innovative Software Delivery Team. We are seeking a highly talented, experienced Lead Software Engineer who is passionate about creating next-generation construction products and services, leveraging modern software engineering and AI-enabled development practices. The ideal candidate combines strong architecture and leadership skills with experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.

District Overview

Kiewit Technology Group builds solutions to enable and support our company's expansive operations. Our mission is to deliver project schedule and cost certainty by employing technology designed by and for the construction industry. Our team utilizes systems and tools that manage every part of Kiewit's business and the project lifecycle to improve planning and day-to-day execution in the field. We give our people real-time data to make faster, smarter decisions.


Location

This position is a full time in office role located on our Lone Tree, CO campus. We are not offering relocation for this role.


Responsibilities

System and Product Design
• Considers the customer's perspective and experiences when designing systems.
• Leads and participates in the architectural design of features early in the development cycle.
• Produces quality designs that ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, flexibility, and extensibility requirements.
• Leads the team in establishing program specifications and secure coding standards.

Solution Execution
• Work with Product Owners to translate roadmap features into manageable components/tasks.
• Champion automated testing and test-driven development.
• Write and coach the team on clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Utilize AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT Enterprise, Windsurf, or Codeium to accelerate software delivery.
• Establish best practices for AI-assisted software development, including prompt engineering, code review governance, security validation, and responsible AI usage.
• Drive adoption of AI-powered development workflows, automated code generation, intelligent testing, and developer productivity tooling.
• Own the full release lifecycle in Azure DevOps from maintaining multi-stage pipeline YAML and environment configurations to executing deployments and validating post-release health across Azure App Services, Service Bus, and API integrations using Azure Monitor and Application Insights.

Leadership
• Primary technical point of contact for stakeholders.
• Responsible for managing delivery of committed work for the team.
• Mentor junior developers and engineers.
• Champion modern software engineering practices including AI-enabled development workflows, DevSecOps, and continuous delivery.
• Lead evaluation and adoption of emerging AI engineering tools and platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and/or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related experience.
• 3+ years of Lead/Senior Software Engineering experience.
• 7+ years of experience building software using OOP practices. (Full-stack software development)
• Experience with React.
• Experience with C#.
• Strong understanding of .NET development.
• Experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT Enterprise, Windsurf, Codeium, or similar platforms.
• Experience incorporating AI-powered development workflows including code generation, refactoring, testing, documentation, and code review.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI-assisted debugging, and developer productivity optimization.
• Experience with SQL Server/Azure SQL and Azure ecosystem services.

Other Requirements:
• Regular, reliable attendance
• Work productively and meet deadlines timely
• Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment
• Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
• Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.

Base Compensation: $165,000/yr - $175,000/yr
(Actual compensation is subject to variation due to such factors as education, experience, skillset, and/or location)

This posting will be active from: 07/31/2026 - 08/03/2026


We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that's among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

There's no limit to what you'll do at Kiewit. Whether you're building or supporting projects that provide communities with dependable energy, safe transportation, clean water, or access to health care, the work you do will positively impact people's lives for generations to come.

Here you'll have endless opportunities to expand your expertise through on-the-job experience and internal and external training and development opportunities.


We offer our full-time staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that's among the best in our industry. From top-tier health care programs to employee assistance programs and retirement planning, we aim to provide you with the tools you need to be successful in the areas of life that matter most to you.

Kiewit is an equal-opportunity employer, and we believe a diverse workforce is vital to the success of our business. We continue our efforts to attract, develop and retain employees from all backgrounds who are passionate about our industry.

We are committed to veteran and military hiring and will consider relevant military experience as equivalent to qualification requirements.