Lead, AI Engineer (Dublin, CA or USA Remote)
Core
Architect and personally build internal AI tooling, reference architectures, and adoption programs to integrate AI capabilities across a 200+ person fintech company and its partner operations.
Role type
Senior IC Lead AI Engineer (Internal Tooling & Adoption)
Builds
Internal AI systems, RAG pipelines, agent loops, LLM gateways, observability platforms, and adoption infrastructure
Domain
Fintech / AI Engineering / Internal Platform
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Python, AWS cloud-native development, LLM system architecture, RAG pipelines, agent loops, eval design, prompt-injection defense, telemetry instrumentation, stakeholder management, organizational change management, community building
Preferred skills
Fintech/lending background, InfoSec/DevOps experience, AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001), PE-portfolio company experience
Technologies
Python, AWS, Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Glean, ChatGPT
Responsibilities
Define and prototype reference architectures for the company; ship production AI systems end-to-end; run intake and acceptance gates with business stakeholders; recruit and manage a network of AI champions; design and deploy AI literacy curricula; report adoption metrics and business outcomes to executive leadership; remove friction in tool usage and policy adoption
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management of one direct report