Technical Lead (Python & AIML)

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 21 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role Technical Lead (Python & AI/ML)

Location New York NY

Duration Full-Time

Leadership & System Architecture

Lead the architecture and development of LLM-driven applications AI agents and RAG-based systems.

Provide technical guidance conduct code reviews and mentor junior team members.

Drive best practices in Python backend engineering API development and AI system design.

Backend Engineering (Python)

- Build and maintain backend services using FastAPI or Flask.
- Develop scalable API endpoints for AI applications embeddings and retrieval systems.
- Ensure backend code quality modularity performance and maintainability.
LLMs RAG and AI Agent Development

Build AI applications using: LangChain LangGraph Semantic Kernel Haystack LlamaIndex AutoGen

Develop autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents with tool calling and workflow graphs.

Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) embedding pipelines chunking strategies reranking and grounding techniques.

Work with OpenAI SDK and other LLM providers (Anthropic Azure OpenAI Cohere etc.).

Manage prompt engineering prompt routing safety guardrails and evaluation metrics.

Data & Vector Search Engineering

Build data pipelines for indexing embeddings and retrieval workflows.

Work with SQL databases (PostgreSQL MySQL etc.) for metadata and application storage.

Work with vector databases such as: Redis Postgres with pgvector Elasticsearch Neo4j or others.

Implement and optimize search workflows using FAISS or similar similarity search libraries.

MLOps Deployment & Observability

Deploy AI services using Docker container orchestration and cloud environments.

Implement monitoring for AI behavior performance error rates and retrieval accuracy.

Set up CI/CD pipelines for backend and AI components.

Optimize inference cost latency and reliability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Collaborate with product data engineering and business teams to understand requirements.

Translate business problems into scalable AI architectures and deliver practical solutions.

Communicate technical decisions trade-offs and progress to stakeholders.

Requirements:

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science AI/ML Data Science or related fields.

10 years of experience in Python backend development.

Strong proficiency in FastAPI or Flask.

Strong working knowledge of SQL databases (Postgres MySQL etc.).

Hands-on expertise with vector databases:

Redis Postgres/pgvector Elasticsearch or Neo4j.

Practical experience with FAISS for similarity search.

Hands-on experience with modern LLM frameworks:

LangChain LangGraph Semantic Kernel Haystack LlamaIndex AutoGen.

Strong understanding of:
- Embeddings & vector search

- RAG pipelines

- Retrieval optimization

- Chunking strategies

- Document loaders & indexing

Experience building AI apps using OpenAI SDK or similar.

Experience deploying APIs/services using Docker and cloud environments.

Leadership experience: guiding teams conducting reviews driving architecture decisions.

Role Technical Lead (Python & AI/ML) Location New York NY Duration Full-Time Leadership & System Architecture Lead the architecture and development of LLM-driven applications AI agents and RAG-based systems. Provide technical guidance conduct code reviews and mentor junior team mem...