Founding Engineering Lead, AI Innovation Lab

Position Summary

Serve as the technical lead for a new AI engineering group, setting architecture and building shared AI infrastructure and production systems for new products and internal content workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture across services, data, model integrations, and deployment, designing systems that can grow from prototype to large-scale use.
• Translate product ideas into technical designs, implementation plans, and clear tradeoffs.
• Build shared AI infrastructure such as model gateways, agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and inference cost tracking.
• Develop AI content pipelines and the internal tools that support them.
• Write technical designs, mentor engineers through design and code reviews, and establish engineering standards.
• Stay hands-on by prototyping, writing production code, evaluating models, and owning system reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building backend or distributed systems used in production, including recent technical lead or architecture experience.
• Experience designing systems end to end across services, data models, APIs, infrastructure, and reliability.
• Production experience with LLM applications, such as retrieval-augmented generation, agents, tool calling, or evaluation.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
• Experience with AWS or GCP, relational databases, caching, and queues.
• Experience mentoring engineers and communicating technical decisions to business partners.
• ML infrastructure, consumer applications at scale, or media and AI-generated content pipelines are a plus.

Location: Sunnyvale, CA (onsite, five days per week)
Employment type: Full-time

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