Lead AI Software Engineer

Job description

Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Team Enablement: Act as the technical lead for one or more teams, setting engineering direction and ensuring high technical standards. Provide hands-on architectural guidance, unblocking complex technical challenges, and reviewing critical designs. Mentor Senior and Mid-level Engineers through structured coaching, design reviews, and ongoing technical feedback. Drive and facilitate technical decision-making, including trade-offs between scalability, reliability, cost, and time-to-market. Lead and contribute to lunch & learns, technical deep dives, and internal knowledge-sharing initiatives. Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Leaders to translate business goals into executable technical strategies. Proactively identify gaps in team capability and influence hiring, onboarding, and skill development strategies. Architecture, Implementation & Quality: Lead rapid experimentation initiatives, ensuring learnings are clearly documented and communicated to stakeholders. Define and standardize testing strategies for AI systems, including unit, integration, regression, and evaluation-based testing. Ensure consistency and quality across im...