Vice President, AI Development

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Vice President AI Development position!

This is a direct placement opportunity and will be hybrid in Buffalo NY. No C2C or subcontracting arrangements will be considered.

What Youll Be Doing:

• Youll bring an entrepreneurial mindset to turn ideas into tangible solutions taking products or projects from concept through launch to real users.
• Own and maintain the AI agent runtime platform with 16 sibling services including TypeScript/NestJS Python and Postgres
• Lead AWS migration from dedicated host infrastructure to ECS/Fargate and RDS under ratified cutover plan
• Build and harden the autonomous agent kernel locks and merge fence enabling safe self-deployment
• Develop memory system of record including ingestion provenance consolidation and retrieval capabilities
• Create self-learning loop with audit instruments and pinned open-weights model
• Build operator console using React consumer app with React Native and real-time voice lane
• Design and implement venture engine for identifying researching and launching new business initiatives
• Take ventures from blank-page proposal through research product build and revenue generation
• Author Architecture Decision Records documenting context alternatives safeguards and outcome reviews
• Implement security hardening program across three deployment phases with independent re-audit acceptance
• Build evaluation framework including regression fixtures break-in tests and monthly frontier-model audits
• Work directly with autonomous AI co-founder on daily basis to advance platform capabilities
• Represent company at universities Empire AI community and with partners and vendors

What Youll Need to Have:

• Entrepreneurial background having started and shipped a product company or project to real users
• MS or PhD in Computer Science AI/ML Electrical Engineering or equivalent discipline
• Production experience shipping code with TypeScript/Node and Python in real-world environments
• Hands-on experience with frontier-model APIs such as Anthropic OpenAI Google or xAI
• Proven expertise with Linux Docker CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms with AWS preferred
• Security-minded approach understanding adversarial threats to autonomous agent deployment systems
• Excellent written and spoken English for creating technical documentation and decision records
• Experience with agent frameworks retrieval systems and evaluation harnesses beyond tutorials
• U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status required; no visa sponsorship available

Pay Range: $120000 - $150000

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