Lead Applied AI Engineer

Talent Software Services, Inc.

  • New York, NY
  • 12 days ago
  • $64.39–$68.18 Per Hour

Highlights

Deep experience designing and deploying production-grade Generative AI solutions. Deliver production-grade AI systems supporting large-scale business operations.

Numbers & Facts

LocationNew York, NY
Salary$64.39–$68.18 Per Hour

Description

Job Details

  • 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
  • Primary Skill Category: AI and Automation

Role Summary

  • Architect, build, deploy, and scale advanced enterprise AI solutions.
  • Integrate:
    • Generative AI
    • AI agents
    • Modern enterprise platforms
  • Deliver production-grade AI systems supporting large-scale business operations.
  • Ensure high standards for:
    • Security
    • Reliability
    • Governance
    • Responsible AI
    • Scalability
  • Define enterprise AI engineering standards and best practices.
  • Lead enterprise AI adoption.
  • Mentor engineering teams.
  • Work across:
    • AI innovation
    • Enterprise architecture
    • Platform engineering
    • Responsible AI governance

AI Solution Architecture

  • Architect end-to-end AI systems, including:
    • Advanced RAG pipelines
    • Multi-stage retrieval and re-ranking
    • Agent orchestration frameworks
    • Multi-agent architectures
    • Multi-model AI integrations
  • Design modular, extensible, scalable, and operationally efficient solutions.
  • Build architectures that can adapt to evolving business requirements.

AI Engineering Standards & Optimization

  • Define enterprise standards for:
    • Prompt engineering
    • Prompt templates
    • Prompt versioning
    • Testing methodologies
    • AI evaluation frameworks
  • Establish optimization strategies for:
    • Model selection
    • Caching
    • Resource utilization
    • Cost optimization
    • Performance

Production Deployment & Reliability

  • Lead production deployment of AI solutions.
  • Implement:
    • Observability
    • Logging
    • Distributed tracing
    • Reliability engineering
    • Graceful degradation
    • Circuit breakers
    • Real-time monitoring dashboards
    • Automated alerting
    • Incident response procedures
  • Ensure AI services meet enterprise SLOs and reliability requirements.

Data & Retrieval Architecture

  • Design scalable data ingestion frameworks for:
    • Structured data
    • Unstructured documents
    • Real-time event streams
  • Develop:
    • Vector database architectures
    • Hybrid search
    • Data preprocessing pipelines
    • Data quality monitoring
  • Implement data cleansing, enrichment, and governance processes.
  • Ensure high-quality data inputs for AI systems.

AI Evaluation & Continuous Improvement

  • 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

Platform & Infrastructure Collaboration

  • Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to support AI workloads.
  • Define requirements for:
    • GPU infrastructure
    • Model-serving platforms
    • Feature stores
    • Scalable data storage
    • Networking infrastructure
  • Define enterprise AI platform capabilities and integration patterns.

Technical Leadership & Mentoring

  • 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.

Responsible AI & Compliance

  • Ensure AI solutions comply with enterprise governance and regulatory requirements.
  • Document:
    • System behavior
    • Decision logic
    • Evaluation methodologies
  • Apply responsible AI principles, including:
    • Fairness
    • Transparency
    • Accountability
    • Bias mitigation
  • Support compliance with applicable regulatory and industry standards.

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience with strong AI/ML focus.
  • 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.

Generative AI Expertise

  • Deep experience designing and deploying production-grade Generative AI solutions.
  • Strong experience with:
    • Advanced RAG architectures
    • Multi-hop retrieval
    • Reasoning systems
    • Agent orchestration
    • Tool-using AI agents
    • Memory-enabled AI systems
    • Multi-model AI architectures
    • Conversational AI platforms

Enterprise Solution Delivery

  • Lead complex AI initiatives across multiple cross-functional teams.
  • Translate business objectives into:
    • Technical solutions
    • AI architectures
    • Delivery roadmaps
  • Drive AI initiatives from:
    • Concept
    • Architecture
    • Development
    • Production deployment
    • Optimization

Technical Skills

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • Distributed systems
  • Vector databases
  • Embedding models
  • LLM APIs
  • Agent orchestration frameworks
  • Cloud-native architectures
  • AI platform engineering
  • Production AI deployment

AI Engineering Best Practices

  • Establish enterprise standards for:
    • Prompt engineering
    • Version control
    • Testing
    • AI evaluation
    • Model observability
    • Cost tracking
    • Performance tracking
    • Benchmarking
    • Data-driven optimization

Responsible AI & Governance

  • Strong understanding of:
    • Responsible AI
    • Model governance
    • Risk management
    • Model validation
    • Change management
    • Production monitoring
    • Deployment practices in regulated environments

Preferred Qualifications

  • Technical leadership across organizational boundaries.
  • Strong mentoring and coaching skills.
  • Ability to collaborate with:
    • Product Management
    • Data Science
    • Engineering
    • Security
    • Compliance
    • Architecture
    • Business stakeholders
  • Experience in regulated industries preferred, including:
    • Healthcare
    • Life Sciences
    • Insurance

Primary Skills for TAG Search

Must Have

  • 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

Strongly Preferred

  • React
  • Cloud AI Platforms
  • Azure
  • OpenAI / Azure OpenAI
  • Healthcare Domain Experience
  • Responsible AI
  • AI Governance
  • Distributed Systems Engineering

Keywords

  • AI Engineer
  • Applied AI Engineer
  • Lead AI Engineer
  • Generative AI
  • Agentic AI
  • AI Agents
  • RAG
  • LLM
  • LLM Integration
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • Vector Database
  • AI Platform
  • AI Architecture
  • AI Evaluation
  • Prompt Engineering
  • AI Governance
  • Responsible AI
  • Cloud AI
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Distributed Systems
  • AI and Automation

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