Lead AI Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the design and development of AI systems that enhance insurance workflow automation.

• Create architectural frameworks for AI orchestration that integrate large language models (LLMs), backend services, and business processes.

• Take charge of the complete AI system design, encompassing inference pipelines, routing, caching, and fallback strategies.

• Influence engineering decisions regarding latency, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and scalability of AI services.

• Lead the deployment of observability systems, including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting mechanisms.

• Evaluate and provide guidance on backend AI implementations across various engineering teams.

• Work collaboratively with product, backend, DevOps, and operations teams to deliver comprehensive AI features.

• Troubleshoot intricate production issues within distributed AI systems and conduct root-cause analysis.

• Establish engineering standards and best practices for the development of AI systems.

• Mentor engineers and enhance the quality of technical execution across teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive backend or AI engineering experience in production settings.

• Proven experience in building or scaling AI systems, including LLMs, embeddings, recommendation systems, or automation workflows.

• Strong system design expertise with a focus on distributed systems.

• Familiarity with production inference pipelines and AI orchestration techniques.

• Exceptional debugging skills in high-scale, latency-sensitive environments.

• Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident response practices.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives in cross-functional teams.

• A strong ownership mentality and capability to drive projects from inception to completion.

• Comfortable working in dynamic, globally distributed teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental coverage

• Vision benefits

• Savings Plan Options

• Paid Time Off (PTO)