About the Role:

We are looking for a hands-on Lead AI/ML Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and evolution of our AI platform.

This role combines AI engineering, machine learning, technical architecture, and team leadership. You will lead AI Developers and ML Engineers while remaining hands-on in designing and building production AI/ML systems.

You will be responsible for the complete AI technology stack, from LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and intelligent applications to embeddings, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, data pipelines, and production monitoring.

This is a hands-on technical lead role. Candidates whose experience is primarily people management, project management, or AI strategy without recent hands-on experience building production AI/ML systems will not be a fit.

Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture and development of production AI/ML systems, including LLM applications, RAG, AI agents, intelligent workflows, retrieval systems, and automation.
- Remain hands-on with Python and AI/ML development, including building solutions, reviewing code,



debugging complex issues, and solving production problems.
- Own architecture and technology selection across LLMs, models, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval, agents, APIs, data pipelines, model integration, and ML systems.
- Design and continuously improve retrieval, evaluation, and experimentation systems to optimize accuracy, relevance, hallucination, latency, reliability, scalability, and cost.
- Lead and mentor AI Developers and ML Engineers, establish engineering standards, review technical approaches and code, and make key architecture and technology decisions.
- Take technical ownership of AI/ML solutions from business requirements and experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Experience & Qualifications:
- 7+ years of skilled experience in software engineering, machine learning, data science, Applied AI, or related technical roles, includin

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