Seeking a Senior AI Lead Engineer to drive the design, development, and delivery of advanced Generative AI solutions while providing leadership across Digital Innovation engineering team. Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure Utilize Azure PaaS services including Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Content Understanding and other cloud-native offerings.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Jacksonville, FL (Remote)
Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
Seeking a Senior AI Lead Engineer to drive the design, development, and delivery of advanced Generative AI solutions while providing leadership across Digital Innovation engineering team. This role combines hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities to organize and guide R&D team developing innovative AI prototypes.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
AI Engineering & Solution Delivery
Develop rapid prototypes to demonstrate business value and convert them into reusable assets
Implement AI-driven approaches to enhance data access, transformation, and workflows
Design, evaluate, and document Generative AI prototypes using emerging techniques in addition to model evaluation, guardrails, and responsible AI practices
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Define reusable architecture patterns and reference implementations
Establish best practices for AI development lifecycle, CI/CD, and deployment
Drive standardization and reuse of successful AI prototypes
Leadership & Team Coordination
Lead and coordinate innovation developers working on multiple AI innovation initiatives
Mentor engineers and foster a culture of experimentation and continuous learning
Organize work across the team by defining priorities, milestones, and technical direction
Remove blockers and facilitate collaboration across onshore and offshore team
Ensure alignment on architecture, coding standards, and best practices
Balance rapid experimentation with production-grade solution development
Guide Agile delivery by helping define requirements, track development & documentation, and share reusable patterns
Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure
Utilize Azure PaaS services including Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Content Understanding and other cloud-native offerings.
Demonstrate deep experience with Azure resources for deployment, configuration, and operations of cloud services.
Execution, Agile & DevOps
Plan and track work using Azure DevOps (Epics, Features, User Stories) / GitHub Issues
Ensure predictable prototype delivery across multiple concurrent AI use cases
Use Git-based workflows and CI/CD automation (Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions).
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
Work with Product, and business team to deliver human-centered AI prototypes/patterns
Communicate technical decisions, progress, and risks to leadership
Align AI prototypes with enterprise innovation strategy
Promote adoption of reusable AI patterns and reference implementations through technical demonstrations, documentation, and stakeholder engagement.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Extensive Microsoft full-stack development experience
Experience with Azure PaaS and AI services
Proven leadership experience managing a technical or innovation team
Proficiency in C# and Python (preferred)
Experience with REST APIs, authentication, and cloud-native architecture
Experience with Azure DevOps/GitHub and CI/CD pipelines
Strong problem-solving and communication skills
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE
Experience building Generative AI applications
Experience designing AI-powered user interfaces
Experience defining architecture standards and platform practices
Experience managing multiple initiatives
Knowledge of Azure Fabric and modern data platforms