Lead AI/ML Engineer

About this role

Join a collaborative team building enterprise-scale Generative AI solutions that make a real impact in a highly regulated environment. This Lead AI/ML Engineer role offers the opportunity to combine hands-on technical execution with strategic leadership, guiding production-ready LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation systems, and responsible AI practices from concept through deployment.


Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of production-ready Generative AI and LLM-powered applications at enterprise scale.
• Build and optimize retrieval-augmented generation solutions, including vector search and enterprise knowledge retrieval workflows.
• Develop scalable APIs, AI services, and cloud-based infrastructure to support machine learning and LLM applications.
• Create and maintain evaluation frameworks to assess model quality, grounding, latency, accuracy, and safety.
• Apply responsible AI principles by helping reduce bias, improve reliability, protect privacy, and strengthen security and compliance.
• Partner with product leaders, engineers, data professionals, and business stakeholders to define and deliver high-value AI use cases.
• Mentor developers and provide technical direction on complex AI initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging AI tools, frameworks, and approaches to recommend practical innovations for the platform and team.

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, or AI engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building, fine-tuning, and deploying Generative AI or LLM solutions in production.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience with modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and design patterns.
• Experience designing solutions on major cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
• Practical experience with RAG frameworks, vector da...