AI Engineering Lead

AI Engineering Lead

Location

Remote.

Yrs.

Of Exp

- 10+ yrs.

Type

Contract

Pay rate

$65-70/hr

Role Summary

Lead the engineering team building production-grade AI/LLM systems. The lead owns LLM architecture, prompt and evaluation strategy, AI observability, and cost Eligible to workimization, 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 Eligible to workimization 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 LanEligible to workhain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar frameworks; AWS Bedrock / Azure OpenAI.
• Knowledge of AI risk management and model governance in financial services.
• Banking/payments domain exposure.