Lead AI Engineer
KellyMitchell Group · St Louis, MO · 1 mo ago
Engineering$63–$90/hrContract
Job Summary
Our client is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to drive the development and evolution of enterprise AI capabilities. This role requires strong technical leadership and hands-on expertise to deliver scalable, production-grade AI solutions.
Core Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and support enterprise-scale AI solutions in production environments
- Develop agentic workflows, orchestration pipelines, tool integrations, and autonomous AI capabilities
- Build and evolve RAG and agent-based architectures that deliver measurable business value
- Create and maintain evaluation frameworks to improve AI quality, groundedness, reliability, and performance
- Implement AI observability, tracing, monitoring, and operational best practices
- Develop automated testing, validation, and regression processes for AI systems
- Integrate AI solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, and data platforms
- Design reusable frameworks, patterns, and components to increase scalability and engineering efficiency
- Establish and promote engineering best practices through code reviews and technical mentorship
- Partner with business stakeholders, architects, and engineers to translate business requirements into innovative AI solutions
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on AI platform strategy and architecture decisions
Required Skills/Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven track record delivering enterprise-grade software solutions in production environments
- Experience building and delivering production-grade agentic AI systems
- Strong Python development experience combined with AI platform engineering expertise
- Experience designing, deploying, operating, monitoring, and evaluating production AI systems
- Hands-on experience implementing agentic AI workflows and autonomous systems
- Experience designing and implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions
- Experience with Databricks
- Experience with LangGraph or similar agent orchestration frameworks
- Experience building AI workflows utilizing tools, APIs, and external systems
- Experience implementing AI evaluation frameworks and quality measurement methodologies
- Experience with AI observability, tracing, and monitoring solutions
- Strong understanding of agent architecture patterns, prompt engineering, and LLM evaluation techniques
- Experience with AWS in production environments
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Experience utilizing Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software engineering practices
- Knowledge of secure coding principles and responsible AI practices
- Experience working within Agile development environments
Preferred Skills/Experience
- Experience with AgentBricks
- Experience with Microsoft Copilot extensibility and agent development
- Experience with LangChain and related AI frameworks
- Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations
- Experience with vector databases and semantic search technologies
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience deploying and managing multi-agent systems
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, MLflow, DeepEval, or similar tooling
- Experience with AWS Bedrock
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Grafana, ML