Tech Lead Python AI Engineer / Lead / AI Architect

We’re looking for a hands-on AI Engineering Lead to build and lead an AI engineering team and turn promising AI prototypes into reliable, production-ready products. This is a great opportunity for a technical leader who enjoys both building AI solutions hands-on and leading an engineering team.

• Build and lead an AI engineering team, hiring and mentoring engineers.
• Own the full journey from AI prototypes to production-ready solutions.
• Design architecture, write code, review implementations, and make key technical decisions.
• Build, deploy, and maintain agentic AI solutions and reusable accelerators.
• Establish engineering standards, testing, security, governance, and deployment practices.
• Collaborate with automation, application engineering, and consulting teams to turn ideas into products.

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technical leadership.
• Proven experience building and owning production products or platforms used by multiple customers.
• Strong hands-on Python experience, with production code delivered within the last 12 months.
• Expert-level Azure experience, including production workloads and cloud architecture.
• Experience leading engineers while remaining actively involved in development.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents and deploying AI solutions to production.
• Experience with self-hosted open-weight models such as Ollama, llama.cpp, or vLLM.
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA, or HIPAA.
• Strong English and excellent communication skills.
• Claude Certified Architect or Microsoft Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect certification.
• Experience taking LLM or agentic AI systems to production.
• Experience productizing and deploying AI accelerators across multiple clients.