Lead AI Engineer

About this role

Position Description:

At a Glance

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Lead AI Engineer to join our Growing AI Team within Legrand North and Central America. This is a remote position.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role at the intersection of enterprise AI engineering, Azure cloud architecture, and technical team management.

Our AI team builds and operates MAIA — Legrand's internal AI assistant platform — along with an expanding portfolio of AI-powered automation and integration solutions across LNCA's subsidiaries. As Lead AI Engineer, you will directly lead our development team, take primary ownership of day-to-day technical execution, and serve as the principal engineer on solution architecture — working in close collaboration with the Director of Generative AI to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and built to last.

This role is the right fit for a technically exceptional engineer who is ready to step into genuine leadership: someone who leads through craft and judgment, grows the people around them, and wants to take on increasing architectural ownership over time.

What Will You Do?

Solution Architecture & Technical Ownership

• Collaborate with the Director of Generative AI to design end-to-end AI solution architectures — including agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, and enterprise system connectors — and own the technical execution of those designs.
• Independently architect solutions for assigned use cases, presenting designs for review and approval prior to development; progressively take on broader architectural ownership as familiarity with the team's standards and systems deepens.
• Evaluate Azure platform services and select appropriate hosting, storage, and compute patterns (Web Apps, Function Apps, CosmosDB, Container Registry, AI Search, Key Vault, and others) for each solution's specific requirements.
• Uphold, refine, and enforce engineering standards across the development tea...