AISoftwareLead

First Student is North America's leading provider of student transportation, helping millions of students get to and from school safely each day. Our technology teams build and support the operational, safety, customer, and employee-facing systems behind that work, including our HALO platform. AI is an area of active investment, and this role is part of how we are building practical, reliable, and governed AI-enabled capabilities for the business. **About the Role** This is not a traditional software engineering role, and "Lead" does not mean managing people. You will lead agent-driven software delivery: deciding what to build, decomposing work for AI coding agents, supervising their output, validating quality, and owning what ships. You will not primarily be measured by writing code line-by-line. You will be measured by your ability to direct AI coding agents effectively, create the scaffolding that keeps their work aligned, review their output with senior-level judgment, and ensure the resulting software is reliable, maintainable, and production-ready. When the solution itself is an AI agent - such as a routing assistant, dispatcher copilot, or parent communications agent - you will help design, build, evaluate, and operate it in production. You will work primarily on net-new tools and agents, with some work in existing systems. You will build in our standard stack: React, React Native, and AWS. Many tools may touch student data, so FERPA and enterprise governance are part of the work. You will be a peer in a small AI pod and will help shape the AI governance and delivery practices we are building now. **How You 'll Work ** You will operate AI coding agents - such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and successor tools - as a primary means of software production. Your value is not typing speed. It is the judgment to know what to build, how to constrain the agent's work, when the output is wrong, and how to prove the result is right. A key part of the role is building t