Lead Applied AI Engineer
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- Job Title: Lead Applied AI Engineer
- Location: New York, NY / Louisville, KY
- Duration: 6 months
- Preferred Work Location:
- 1700 Broadway, Suite 3400, New York, NY 10019
- Louisville, KY
- Experience Required: 8-10 years
- Role Category: AI Engineer
- Skill Category: AI and Automation
- Architect, build, deploy, and scale production-grade AI solutions.
- Integrate:
- Generative AI
- AI agents
- Modern enterprise platforms
- Support large-scale business operations.
- Ensure strong standards for:
- Security
- Reliability
- Governance
- Responsible AI
- Define enterprise AI technical standards and engineering best practices.
- Lead enterprise AI adoption.
- Mentor engineering teams.
- Work across AI innovation, enterprise architecture, platform engineering, and responsible AI governance.
- Architect end-to-end AI systems.
- Design advanced RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines.
- Develop multi-stage retrieval and re-ranking architectures.
- Design agent orchestration frameworks for multiple specialized agents.
- Integrate multiple AI models based on their specific strengths.
- Build solutions with:
- Modularity
- Extensibility
- Scalability
- Operational excellence
- Define enterprise standards for:
- Prompt engineering
- Prompt templates
- Prompt versioning
- Testing methodologies
- Evaluation frameworks
- Establish performance optimization strategies covering:
- Model selection
- Caching
- Resource utilization
- Cost optimization
- Lead deployment of AI solutions into production.
- Implement:
- Observability
- Logging and tracing
- Reliability engineering
- Graceful degradation
- Circuit breakers
- Real-time monitoring dashboards
- Automated alerting
- Incident response procedures
- Ensure AI services meet enterprise service-level objectives and reliability expectations.
- Design scalable data ingestion frameworks for:
- Structured data
- Unstructured documents
- Real-time event streams
- Develop:
- Vector database architectures
- Hybrid search capabilities
- Data preprocessing pipelines
- Data quality monitoring frameworks
- Implement data cleansing, enrichment, and governance processes.
- Ensure high-quality inputs for AI systems.
- Establish quantitative AI evaluation frameworks.
- Implement:
- A/B testing
- Performance benchmarking
- User feedback analysis
- Telemetry-based optimization
- Continuously improve:
- Prompts
- Retrieval strategies
- Agent workflows
- Model configurations
- Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to support AI workloads.
- Work with:
- GPU infrastructure
- Model-serving platforms
- Feature stores
- Scalable data storage
- Networking infrastructure
- Define requirements for enterprise AI platforms and integration patterns.
- Mentor engineers through:
- Architecture reviews
- Design guidance
- Code reviews
- Career development
- Promote engineering excellence through:
- Best-practice documentation
- Technical training
- Communities of practice
- Foster responsible and ethical AI development.
- Ensure AI solutions meet enterprise governance and compliance requirements.
- Maintain documentation covering:
- System behavior
- Decision logic
- Evaluation methodologies
- Apply responsible AI principles:
- Fairness
- Transparency
- Accountability
- Bias mitigation
- Support applicable regulatory and industry requirements.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on AI/ML engineering.
- Proven experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Demonstrated success delivering AI-driven business outcomes.
- Experience leading large and complex technical initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in:
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Data Science
- Related discipline
- Equivalent practical experience may be considered.
- Deep experience designing and deploying production-grade Generative AI solutions.
- Experience with:
- Advanced RAG architectures
- Multi-hop retrieval
- Reasoning systems
- Agent orchestration frameworks
- Tool-using AI agents
- Memory-enabled AI systems
- Multi-model AI architectures
- Conversational AI platforms
- Lead complex AI initiatives involving multiple cross-functional teams.
- Translate business objectives into:
- Technical solutions
- AI architectures
- Delivery roadmaps
- Drive initiatives from concept through:
- Development
- Production deployment
- Optimization
- Python
- FastAPI
- React
- Distributed systems
- Vector databases
- Embedding models
- LLM APIs
- Agent orchestration frameworks
- Modern cloud-native architectures
- Establish enterprise standards for:
- Prompt engineering
- Version control
- Testing
- AI evaluation
- Model observability
- Cost tracking
- Performance tracking
- Benchmarking
- Data-driven optimization
- Strong understanding of:
- Responsible AI principles
- Model governance
- Risk management
- Model validation
- Change management
- Production monitoring
- Deployment practices in regulated environments
- Technical leadership across organizational boundaries.
- Strong mentoring and coaching capabilities.
- Ability to collaborate with:
- Product Management
- Data Science
- Engineering
- Security
- Compliance
- Architecture
- Business stakeholders
- Experience in regulated industries preferred:
- Healthcare
- Life Sciences
- Insurance
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- RAG Architecture
- AI Agents
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Python
- FastAPI
- Vector Databases
- LLM Integration
- AI Platform Engineering
- Production AI Deployment
- AI Evaluation Frameworks
- Prompt Engineering
- Observability & Monitoring
- Enterprise Architecture
- React
- Cloud AI Platforms
- Azure
- OpenAI / Azure OpenAI
- Healthcare Domain Experience
- Responsible AI
- AI Governance
- Distributed Systems Engineering
- Lead Applied AI Engineer
- AI Engineer
- Applied AI
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- AI Agents
- Multi-Agent Systems
- RAG
- LLM
- LLM Integration
- Python
- FastAPI
- React
- Vector Databases
- AI Platform Engineering
- AI Architecture
- AI Evaluation
- Prompt Engineering
- AI Governance
- Responsible AI
- Azure OpenAI
- Cloud AI
- Distributed Systems
- AI and Automation
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