AI Engineer Lead

Long Finch Technologies

Posted On: Feb 27, 2026

Posted On: Feb 27, 2026

Job Overview

Job Type

Full-time

Experience

10 - 20 Years

Salary

Depends on Experience

Work Arrangement

Remote

Travel Requirement

0%

Required Skills

  • AI
  • Gen AI
  • LLM
  • Agentic AI
  • Artificial Intelligence
Job Description

Job Description

  • We are seeking an experienced AI Technical Lead to design, build, and scale AI systems with a strong focus on Generative AI, Agentic AI architectures, and robust software engineering best practices. This role involves driving end-to-end AI solution development—from model selection and fine tuning to system design, deployment, and operationalization.
  • You will lead technical strategy, mentor engineering teams, and work closely with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver AI-driven capabilities across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

  •  AI Engineering & Solution Delivery
  •  Lead the design and development of Generative AI solutions using LLMs, multimodal models, and diffusion models.
  •  Build and maintain Agentic AI systems, including autonomous agents, tools integration, reasoning frameworks, and multi-agent workflows.
  •  Develop production-grade AI components using strong engineering principles: modularity, maintainability, observability, and testing.
  •  Optimize models for performance, latency, and cost using techniques like quantization, distillation, and retrieval augmentation.
  •  Software Design
  •  Design scalable, secure, and compliant AI solutions aligned with enterprise engineering standards.
  •  Ensure adherence to best practices in software development, version control, CI/CD, containerization, and LLMOps/MLOps.
  •  GenAI & Agentic AI Focus
  •  Lead development of applications using LLMs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, etc.).
  •  Build RAG pipelines, vector-based retrieval systems, and knowledge grounding solutions.
  •  Create autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents capable of task execution, planning, and reasoning.
  •  Drive experimentation with new GenAI techniques—prompt engineering, tool use, function calling, fine-tuning, and model fine-tuning.
  •  Evaluate emerging frameworks: LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, etc.
  •  Leadership & Collaboration
  •  Lead a team of AI engineers and developers; provide mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance.
  •  Translate business requirements into technical actionable engineering plans.
  •  Partner with product teams to define AI capabilities, roadmaps, and delivery milestones.
  •  Evangelize AI best practices and contribute to AI governance, ethics, and responsible AI frameworks.

Required Qualifications

  •  10+ years of software engineering experience; 3+ years in applied AI/ML engineering.
  •  Strong proficiency in Python, AI frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), and API-driven development.
  •  Hands-on expertise with GenAI, LLM orchestration frameworks, RAG pipelines, and vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS, Azure AI Search).
  •  Experience developing Agentic AI using tools/functions integration, planning agents, workflows, or multi agent systems.
  •  Deep understanding of cloud platforms: Preferably Azure, including ML Ops and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  •  Solid understanding of system design, distributed computing, microservices, and API architecture.

Preferred Skills

  •  Experience fine tuning LLMs.
  •  Knowledge of multimodal models (vision, speech, text).
  •  Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and open source models (Llama, Mistral, Gemma).
  •  Practical knowledge of model evaluation metrics, safety guardrails, prompt optimization, and responsible AI.
  •  Background in Insurance is a plus.

Soft Skills

  •  Excellent communication skills.
  •  Strong leadership abilities with experience managing technical teams.
  •  A problem-solving mindset with a focus on innovation, quality, and delivery.
  •  Ability to work in dynamic, cross-functional environments.

 


Job ID: LFT120644


Posted By

Tanishq Trivedi