Hybrid Lead AI Engineer

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About the role

  • AI Engineer Lead responsible for managing LLM systems and data pipelines at DELVE Deeper. Leading hands-on engineering efforts to ensure production quality and data platform decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead hands-on across LLM systems, data pipelines, connector infrastructure, context management, observability, and production quality.
  • Own the data platform decisions that make the agent usable in production, including ETL orchestration, data contracts, vector storage, API reliability, and context formatting for LLM consumption.
  • Define evaluation frameworks, success thresholds, and regression suites before any feature enters development.
  • Mentor engineers working in an AI-first codebase while maintaining a high standard for clarity, speed, and disciplined iteration.
  • Implement logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting across model behavior, pipeline health, API usage, and user-facing failures.

Requirements

  • 7+ years across software engineering, data engineering, ML engineering, or AI platform work, including direct ownership of production systems
  • 2+ years leading technical delivery for complex systems, with evidence of setting standards and raising execution quality
  • Strong Python and SQL, plus hands-on experience building APIs, services, and robust data pipelines
  • Deep experience with ETL or ELT design, schema management, and data platform reliability in production
  • Hands-on experience building or operating LLM applications, agentic systems, tool-calling workflows, or comparable AI application layers
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerized deployments (AWS, Azure, or GCP; Docker and ideally Kubernetes)

Benefits

  • Health and dental insurance (after trial period)
  • 28 calendar PTO days
  • Flexible sick days policy backed by full 100% short-time disability coverage
  • Compensation of sports facilities (after trial period)
  • Mental health reimbursement (after trial period)
  • Generous employee referral bonuses

Job title

Lead AI Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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