
AI Engineer – Manager
Posted 6 days ago

Posted 6 days ago
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico.
• Oversee the complete delivery of AI projects, ensuring effective governance, stakeholder engagement, and dependable execution.
• Create and develop production-ready RAG systems, agentic frameworks, and solutions powered by LLM.
• Utilize prompt engineering techniques, including instruction design, few-shot prompting, structured outputs, and tool/agent prompts.
• Conduct feasibility assessments across prompting, RAG, fine-tuning, classical ML, and hybrid methodologies.
• Establish AI evaluation frameworks utilizing LLM-as-a-judge, custom metrics, recall@k, precision@k, and go/no-go criteria.
• Execute experiments involving prompts, retrievers, chunking strategies, embeddings, reranking methods, and models.
• Detect and classify model failures, hallucinations, retrieval misses, instruction-following errors, and quality regressions.
• Develop scalable inference infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for AI and ML models.
• Automate the MLOps/LLMOps lifecycle, including tracking, versioning, deployment, monitoring, retraining, and ongoing enhancement.
• Design APIs, microservices, and orchestration layers that are optimized for latency, cost, reliability, and scalability.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers.
• Contribute to proposals, solution design, and new business initiatives.
• Engage with engineering teams, senior stakeholders, and clients to provide guidance on practical AI decisions.
• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in building and deploying AI, ML, data-driven, or software solutions in production settings.
• Proficient in Python.
• Strong understanding of Git practices.
• Practical experience with LLM-powered solutions, RAG systems, and contemporary GenAI development patterns.
• Hands-on experience with chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, and evaluation processes.
• Solid knowledge of prompt engineering, structured outputs, few-shot prompting, instruction design, and tool/agent prompts.
• Experience in designing AI evaluation strategies, metrics, dataset curation, structured experimentation, and quality gates.
• Familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps tools such as MLflow, Weights & Biases, or similar platforms.
• Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a preference for Azure.
• Experience with containerization, orchestration, scalable inference, APIs, and microservices.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures and production-grade engineering practices.
• Excellent communication skills with engineering teams, senior stakeholders, and clients.
• A pragmatic approach that balances innovation, reliability, cost, latency, and business value.
• Advanced proficiency in English for both written and verbal communication.
• Nice to have: Experience with Databricks MLOps platform.
• Nice to have: Experience in LLM fine-tuning.
• Nice to have: Familiarity with agentic GenAI systems.
• Nice to have: Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Nice to have: Knowledge of security and observability practices for AI services.
• Nice to have: Background in classical machine learning.
• Nice to have: Contributions to open-source projects or public technical work.
• Daily lunches at headquarters, offering vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and sugar-free options.
• Gourmet meals every Friday prepared by an on-site chef at headquarters.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Provision of a Macbook and accessories.
• Daily availability of snacks and beverages at headquarters.
• After-office events, including football, tennis, and game nights at headquarters.
• Football league every Wednesday and Friday.
• Access to tennis courts.
• Chess championships and music/game nights.
• Opportunities for AWS certifications.
• Support for study plans, courses, and other certifications.
• English language lessons.
• Learning opportunities during Tech Tuesdays.
• Mentoring and development opportunities.
• Gifts for anniversaries and birthdays.
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