Founding Engineering Lead, AI Innovation Lab
Sunnyvale, CA
Full Time
Executive
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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