Position Details

Salary $197K – $225K USD / year

Type Full-Time

Experience lead

Exp. Years 4+ years

Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields; or Master's degree

Category AI & Machine Learning

About this role

Lead AI Engineer focuses on AI foundations and agentic AI capabilities, building production-grade AI systems with LLMs and Guardrails using PyTorch, AWS, and Hugging Face.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with teams to deliver AI-powered products
Design/implement foundation models and LLM inference
Develop guardrails and observability
Operationalize AI services
Roadmap AI systems

Technical Overview

Stack includes Python, Go, TypeScript; AWS Ultraclusters; Hugging Face; VectorDBs; Nemo Guardrails; PyTorch; LLMs; focus on guardrails, inference, and scalable production AI systems.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a Lead AI Engineer with 4+ years of AI/ML experience, strong Python, and hands-on experience with LLMs, Hugging Face, and AWS. They should be able to design and deploy AI services across multiple locations, balancing performance and cost.

Must-Have Skills

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceAIElectrical EngineeringComputer Engineeringor related fields plus at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologiesAt least 4 years of experience programming with PythonGoScalaor Java

Nice-to-Have Skills

6 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (AWSGoogle CloudAzureor equivalent private cloud)Experience designingdevelopingdeliveringand supporting AI servicesExperience developing AI/ML algorithms using PythonC++C#Javaor GolangExperience optimizing training/inference software for hardware utilizationlatencythroughputand cost1+ year of experience with AWSPassion for staying current with AI research

Tools & Platforms

AWS UltraclustersHugging FaceVectorDBsNemo GuardrailsPyTorch

Required Skills

Bachelor's degree; 4+ years AI/ML; 4+ years Python/Go/TypeScript/Java; cloud experience; LLM/guardrails

Hard Skills

PythonGoTypeScriptAWSHugging FaceVectorDBsNemo GuardrailsPyTorchLLMsGuardrails

Soft Skills

CuriosityTechnical leadershipCommunicationProblem solvingTeam collaboration

Industry & Role

Industry Fintech

Job Function Develop and deploy scalable AI foundations and LLM-based solutions

Role Subtype ML Engineer

Tech Domains Python, Amazon Web Services

Clearance & Visa

Visa Sponsorship Yes

Keywords for Your Resume

lead ai engineerai foundationsllm coreagentic aipythongopytorchaws ultraclustershuggingfacevectordbsnemo guardrailsguardrailsllmslarge language modelsnlpcloudai systems

Deal Breakers

No experience with Python/LLMs, No AWS experience, Lack of cross-location collaboration experience

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