Lead AI Engineer
Job Summary
As a Lead AI Engineer you will design and build applied AI solutions that drive measurable business value from concept through scalable production deployment. Youll architect enterprise AI systems leveraging large language models retrieval-augmented generation and agentic workflows while leading technical strategy and mentoring engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and architect AI-powered systems using LLMs RAG agentic workflows and orchestration patterns integrated with enterprise data and business processes
- Develop secure maintainable production-ready software platforms and cloud-native services that orchestrate models tools retrieval systems and enterprise workflows
- Build rapid prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate new technologies and identify business opportunities
- Establish comprehensive evaluation monitoring and quality practices including testing benchmarking observability and continuous improvement
- Lead technical design discussions architecture reviews and drive engineering best practices across teams
- Mentor engineers and develop reusable AI capabilities and frameworks that accelerate delivery across the organization
- Collaborate with product teams architects domain experts customers and partners to identify opportunities and deliver business impact
- Influence IFSs AI strategy and long-term technology direction through hands-on delivery experimentation and customer engagement including external-facing innovation through industry events and partner collaboration
Qualifications :
Core Requirements
Bachelors degree in computer science Software Engineering AI Data Science or a related field. Masters degree is advantageous.
8 years of professional experience in AI Machine Learning and/or Software Engineering backed by a proven track record of successfully delivered projects.
Experience bringing incubated AI solutions to production including scoping design development testing deployment and vigilant monitoring.
Strong programming skills one or more mainstream programming languages such as Python Golang C#or TypeScript.
Experience with context engineering including retrieval architecture embeddings vector databases search technologies and retrieval optimization techniques.
Strong backend engineering fundamentals including APIs distributed services cloud-native architectures CI/CD integration automation and security.
A solid background in DevOps and MLOps/LLMOps practices and familiarity with tools to manage infrastructure as code like Terraform and package managers like Helm Charts.
Ability to design solutions that integrate enterprise applications business processes workflows and data platforms.
Applied AI & Architecture
Experience designing and implementing AI-driven architectures using LLMs retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agentic workflows orchestration patterns and enterprise data sources.
Strong understanding of the AI system lifecycle including evaluation deployment monitoring governance and continuous improvement.
Experience with MLOps lifecycles deployment pipelines model operations and observability for AI systems is advantageous.
Collaboration & Execution
Experience working closely with customers stakeholders and domain experts to define and deliver solutions.
Demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype experiment measure outcomes and iterate quickly in real-world customer and enterprise environments.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfortable operating in ambiguous fast-moving environments translating complex business problems into clear technical strategies execution plans and measurable outcomes.
Experience leading technical discussions influencing architectural direction mentoring engineers and driving alignment across teams.
Track record of influencing technical direction and technology strategy through hands-on delivery experimentation and evidence-based recommendations.
Experience with two or more of the following technologies is highly desirable
LLM Serving & AI Platforms
vLLM LiteLLM KServe or similar LLM serving platforms.
AI gateways model routing inference serving and multi-modal orchestration.
Foundation Model
Cohere OpenAI Anthrophic Llama Mistral DeepSeek or other open-source LLMs.
Agentic AI
LangGraph PydanticAI Semantic Kernel CrewAI AutoGen or similar agentic AI frameworks.
Tool calling MCP workflow orchestration and autonomous agents.
AI Evaluation & Observability
MLFlow DeepEval Ragas Promptfoo Langfuse or similar evaluation and observability tools.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Kubernetes Docker Helm Terraform and cloud-native deployments platforms.
GPU infrastructure and inference optimization.
Model Development
Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers PEFT LoRA).
Fine-tuning model evaluation benchmarking prompt engineering and model optimization.
Experience building enterprise AI platforms or developer tooling.
Experience working with AMD NVIDIA or other AI accelerator technologies.
Experience with enterprise software domains such as ERP EAM Service Management Manufacturing Supply Chain or Field Service.
Experience building customer-facing demonstrations proof-of-concepts or innovation showcases.
Contributions to open-source AI projects technical communities conferences or publications.
Experience working with Microsoft Azure AWS or Google Cloud AI services.
Nice to Have
Experience building enterprise AI platforms or developer tooling.
Experience working with AMD NVIDIA or other AI accelerator technologies.
Experience with enterprise software domains such as ERP EAM Service Management Manufacturing Supply Chain or Field Service.
Experience building customer-facing demonstrations proof-of-concepts or innovation showcases.
Contributions to open-source AI projects technical communities conferences or publications.
Experience working with Microsoft Azure AWS or Google Cloud AI services.
Additional Information :
We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community we drive innovation strengthen connections and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
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