Lead AI Engineer

About This Opportunity

Our talent team is representing a confidential insurance technology organization in their search for a Lead AI Engineer. This is a systems leadership role focused on shaping AI strategy, architecture, and adoption across a customer-facing digital platform. You'll serve as the technical authority connecting engineering, product, and business leadership while making high-stakes decisions on platform selection, architectural patterns, and AI tooling standards.

This is not a people management position. You will own the technical vision and be accountable for build-vs-buy decisions, enterprise system architecture, and establishing AI engineering standards across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Define the AI engineering roadmap and architecture standards across the organization
• Lead build vs. buy vs. integrate decision-making for AI systems and platforms, with clear accountability for how decisions are reached
• Evaluate emerging tools, frameworks, and models; provide defensible recommendations to leadership
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex AI/ML system design challenges
• Architect AI solutions for enterprise platforms undergoing active upgrade cycles, working comfortably across process and platform layers
• Design systems for scale, reliability, and cost-efficiency in production environments
• Establish LLMOps practices including evaluation suites, cost and quality observability, versioned prompts, staged rollout, and production guardrails
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align AI capabilities with business outcomes
• Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences including executives
• Champion AI-assisted coding practices and developer tooling across engineering teams
• Define standards for responsible AI development including guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and security considerations

What We're Looking For

Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a meaningful portion in production AI/ML or LLM/GenAI systems
• 2+ years building production LLM/GenAI and agentic systems with fluency in AI-assisted coding tooling
• Demonstrated track record of redesigning existing business processes with AI at the core within enterprise environments, shipped to production
• Production experience with agent orchestration, tool calling, RAG, and structured outputs
• Sound judgment about appropriate AI use cases, distinguishing probabilistic systems from deterministic, auditable processes required in regulated environments
• Experience making and communicating build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions at an organizational level
• Proficiency in Python and the modern GenAI application stack including agent frameworks, model-provider SDKs, vector databases, and evaluation tooling
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to document architecture decisions and present to executive audiences

Preferred:

• Direct evidence of legacy-process redesign with latitude to alter underlying platform architecture
• Enterprise or regulated-domain experience, ideally in financial services or similar contexts
• Experience in technical lead or principal engineer role with broad organizational influence
• Background working with product engineering teams in dual-track agile environments
• Experience with AI cost management, observability, and governance frameworks

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will screen your background and facilitate introductions with our client. We coordinate the interview process and provide guidance throughout. Please apply exclusively through our platform and do not contact the client organization directly.

Pay

This role is based in the United States. Our client offers health, dental, and vision plans, 4 weeks paid time off, 10 paid company holidays with 2 floating holidays, 401K with employer match, and personal assistance programs.

Equal Opportunity

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