AI Engineering Lead

Job Description

Job Description

About Client:
The client provides information technology (IT) services, including business outsourcing, infrastructure technology, and application services. The application service offered by the company includes application development, maintenance, and support. The markets served by the company are financial services and insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, government, transportation, communications, and consumer and retail industries.

Rate Range: $50-$55/Hr

Job Description:

• Lead the engineering team building production-grade AI/LLM systems. The lead owns LLM architecture, prompt and evaluation strategy, AI observability, and cost optimization, and mentors engineers to deliver reliable AI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the architecture of production AI/ML and LLM-based systems, including agentic workflows and RAG patterns.
• Establish prompt engineering standards, prompt versioning and guardrails.
• Build evaluation frameworks (offline and online) to measure accuracy, safety, hallucination and regression.
• Implement AI observability: tracing, token/latency metrics, quality monitoring and drift detection.
• Drive cost optimization across model selection, caching, batching and token usage.
• Lead, mentor and review the work of AI engineers; set coding and quality standards in Python.
• Partner with architecture, security and business teams to ensure responsible-AI and governance controls.
• Absorb the 1-month knowledge transition from the MVP delivery team and own AI technical continuity.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10 years in software engineering, with recent hands-on experience shipping production AI/ML systems.
• Strong expertise in LLM architecture, prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks.
• Advanced Python skills.
• Experience implementing AI observability and cost controls.
• Proven team leadership and technical mentoring experience

Preferred / Good to Have

• Experience with Langchain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar frameworks; AWS Bedrock / Azure OpenAI.
• Knowledge of AI risk management and model governance in financial services.
• Banking/payments domain exposure.

Education

• Bachelor s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Soft Skills

• Clear written and verbal communication with US-based stakeholders, ownership mindset, structured problem-solving and the ability to work effectively across onsite offshore teams.

Screening Must-Haves

• Production LLM systems delivered
• Evaluation frameworks and AI observability
• Team leadership

About ApTask:
ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of work. As an African American-owned and Veteran-owned company, ApTask offers a comprehensive suite of services, including staffing and recruitment solutions, managed services, IT consulting, and project management. With a focus on excellence, collaboration, and innovation, ApTask provides unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and development. As a member of the ApTask team, you will have the chance to connect businesses with top-tier professionals, optimize workforce performance, and drive success across diverse industries. Join us at ApTask and be part of our mission to empower organizations to thrive while fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

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