Hybrid AI Development Lead

at TheIncLab

• Job title: AI Development Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, McLean, United States

About the role

• AI Development Lead for TheIncLab leading and executing AI solutions through collaboration and technical strategy. Overseeing end-to-end AI lifecycle while mentoring engineers and driving innovation.

Responsibilities

• **Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept**
• As an AI Development Lead, you will work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business leaders to translate cutting-edge AI research into scalable, reliable, and mission-impacting software.
• **Drive Technical Strategy & Execution****Lead architecture, design, and delivery of AI/ML systems, including LLMs, RAG workflows, agents, and foundation models from prototyping to production.
• **Lead End-to-End AI Lifecycle****Oversee model development including data preparation, training/optimization, evaluation/validation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Ensure systems adhere to robustness, scalability, observability, and ethical AI standards.
• **Collaborate Cross-Functionally****Partner with product managers, data engineers, UX/design, and business stakeholders to define requirements, set priorities, and deliver impactful AI solutions aligned to business needs.
• **Establish Best Practices****Champion CI/CD and MLOps practices, including model versioning, automated pipelines, performance monitoring, and reproducibility.
• **Mentorship & Leadership****Mentor engineers and scientists, fostering high engineering standards, technical growth, innovation, and accountability.
• **Research & Innovation Impact****Stay ahead of industry advancements in generative AI, foundational model tech, self-supervised learning, optimization techniques, RLHF, and robustness/interpretability. Apply research insights to product enhancements and novel solutions.

Requirements

• **Capabilities that will enable your success**
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years in AI/ML development with clear progression into technical leadership roles.
• Experience from concept through execution and operationalization of AI/ML systems.
• Deep understanding of generative AI architectures, training paradigms, and foundation models.
• Hands-on experience with large deep learning models: language, vision, event, or graph domains.
• Expertise in one or more advanced topics: self-supervised learning, training optimization, robustness, explainability, RLHF.
• Demonstrated record of delivering AI systems at scale, both training compute and inference loads.
• Experience building platform-level capabilities or reusable libraries that uplift other teams.
• Track record of meaningful contributions to the field, such as publications, open-source code, or recognized projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to align AI work with business strategy.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed.

Benefits

• **Benefits**
• At TheIncLab we recognize that innovation thrives when employees are provided with ample support and resources. Our benefits packages reflect that:
• Hybrid and flexible work schedules
• Professional development programs
• Training and certification reimbursement
• Extended and floating holiday schedule
• Paid time off and Paid volunteer time
• Health and Wellness Benefits include options for Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance along with access to Wellness, Mental Health, and Employee Assistance Programs.
• 100% Company Paid Benefits that include STD, LTD, and Basic Life insurance.
• 401(k) Plan Options with employer matching
• Incentive bonuses for eligible clearances, performance, and employee referrals.
• A company culture that values your individual strengths, career goals, and contributions to the team.