Lead AI Engineer

About the role

Lead the design, development, and adoption of AI systems within a strategic business domain. You will be part of the AI team, working inside one of our divisions (Marketing or Finance for example) to lead their AI transformation.

Mission: Transform cutting-edge AI technologies into reliable, scalable, and measurable products used by leading enterprises worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Own AI Strategy for Your Domain
• Define the AI vision and roadmap for your domain
• Identify high-value opportunities with Product Managers and business leaders
• Prioritize investments based on business impact
• Lead AI System Development
• Design and build production-grade AI systems
• Drive architecture decisions
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• Drive Adoption & Business Impact
• Work closely with end users
• Measure adoption and outcomes
• Accelerate AI transformation across your domain
• Establish Technical Excellence
• Promote best practices for evaluation, testing, guardrails, and observability
• Review designs and mentor engineers
• Raise the quality bar across initiatives
• Grow AI Capability
• Mentor AI Engineers and Agent Builders
• Share knowledge and reusable components
• Build AI expertise within your organization

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Software Engineering, ML Engineering, or Applied AI
• Strong experience with LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, evaluation, and production systems
• Ability to influence Product and Business decisions
• Proven leadership on complex cross-functional initiatives
• Tech Stack: Languages: Python and SQL; AI Stack: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral and Open-source models; Agentic & Retrieval: LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP and Vector Databases; Infrastructure: AWS or GCP, Docker and Kubernetes

Benefits

OTE Pay Range: $150,000 - $190,000 USD

Benefits: Health, dental, 401(k) match plan, commuter, and PTO.

Schedule

This is a permanent position (CDI) based in our Boston office, with 4 days on-site per week.