Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY. **Bringing out the best in people** As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us. Working at Dentsply Sirona you are able to: **Develop faster** - with our commitment to the best professional development. **Perform better** - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture. **Shape an industry** - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation. **Make a difference** -by helping improve oral health worldwide. **What We Are Looking For - Scope of Role** We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to join our team with a primary focus on AI-driven automation across a program area. This role is a senior individual contributor position with team-level technical leadership: you will own delivery and architecture for AI automation features within one or more epics, mentor peers, coordinate with adjacent teams, and ensure responsible, production-grade deployment of AI tooling (including guardrails, traceability, and operational readiness). The role spans multiple features and may touch multiple products, services, or platforms within the program area. **What Will You Do - Responsibilities for Employment** Team-level leadership & delivery • Tech lead a team or feature squad: set technical priorities, support sprint outcomes, remove blockers, and enable team delivery. • Own delivery for one or more epics: plan, design, implement, test, deploy, and operate features. • Mentor peers through pairing, design reviews and knowledge sharing; provide cross-team enablement as needed. • Coordinate dependencies and alignment with Product, UX, QA, Security, and Cloud Ops. Technical Implementation & Development • Lead implementation of AI-enabled automation workflows for parts of the software development lifecycle within the program area. • Design and implement auto-generation workflows for Jira stories, system requirements, and technical documentation with defined quality gates and traceability. • Implement AI-assisted code scaffolding and integrate validation, guardrails and automated checks into CI/CD pipelines. • Build and operate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) components, lightweight intelligent agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) or equivalent integrations to support engineering workflows. • Ensure human-in-the-loop checkpoints, prompt and policy guardrails, access controls, provenance and traceability for AI outputs. • Implement feature flags, staged rollouts and safe rollback conditions for AI features; monitor and optimize reliability, latency, correctness and cost. • Prepare runbooks, dashboards and alerts; participate in incident response and post-incident reviews to improve system resiliency. • Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging AI technologies to improve developer productivity, quality and efficiency. **Who You Are - Qualifications** Education: • BS or MS in computer science or a related engineering discipline. Years and type of experience • 5+ years as a Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer or comparable role. • Demonstrated experience delivering production-grade systems and automation that improve developer workflows. • Experience working with distributed systems, APIs and service-level design at project or program scope. • Practical experience integrating AI components (RAG, embeddings/embedding stores, light agents) into engineering workflows. • Experience mentoring peers and enabling cross-team adoption; prior tech lead experience preferred. Key skills, knowledge & capabilities • Strong practical system and service design skills appropriate to team/program scope. • Familiarity with Git workflows, REST/gRPC APIs, CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab), Docker and exposure to Kubernetes. • Hands-on experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts (Terraform/ARM). • Working knowledge of AI/LLM, for example, RAG pipelines, vector DBs/embedding stores, prompt engineering, and retrieval-quality evaluation. • Solid testing and observability practices: unit/integration testing, logging, metrics and distributed tracing. • Awareness of data privacy, access controls and secure handling of embeddings and logs; apply least-privilege and retention policies. • Good English communication skills (written and spoken); additional languages (e.g., German) advantageous. • Experience in regulated industries (medical device) or regulated development processes is a plus. Nice to have • Experience integrating AI checks into CI/CD (policy checks, automated test generation, documentation synthesis). • Familiarity with model evaluation, offline/online metrics, and A/B testing for AI features. • Experience with MCP or similar context-sharing protocols. Dentsply Sirona is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. We appreciate your interest in Dentsply Sirona. If you need assistance with completing the online application due to a disability, please send an accommodation request to careers@dentsplysirona.com (careers@dentsply.com) . Please be sure to include “Accommodation Request” in the subject.