Lead AI Engineer

$159k - $230k • Remote • Full Time

Posted 2mo ago

Remote Work Policy

On-site

Employment Type

Full Time

Categories

LLM Engineer

About the job

As a Lead AI Engineer, you will be at the forefront of our Generative AI initiatives, treating AI as a software engineering discipline. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our AI features, specifically document intelligence and RAG pipelines, taking them from initial prototype to robust, scalable production services. You will solve for real-world constraints like latency, error handling, and cost optimization. You’ll collaborate with a diverse range of clients to translate business needs into high-performance AI architectures. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise in LLMs and a disciplined Software Engineering approach to ensure our solutions are robust, ethical, and scalable.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build end-to-end GenAI applications
  • Develop advanced RAG pipelines and Semantic Search systems
  • Lead efforts in LLM and Embedding fine-tuning
  • Build and manage agentic workflows for complex reasoning tasks
  • Collaborate with customers to understand requirements and implement AI techniques
  • Apply MLOps best practices for model serving, monitoring, and improvement

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 8+ years of experience in AI/ML
  • Proven track record of deploying GenAI products to a production environment
  • Experience with Classic Machine Learning (neural nets, training, tuning) is a strong plus
  • Knowledge of Data Engineering and SQL
  • Strong software engineering foundation with clean, maintainable code and understanding of the full SDLC
  • Ownership, curiosity, consultative spirit, and ethical AI development practices

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