AI Technical Lead (Principal Engineer)
Core
Design and build an AI-powered insurance marketplace where AI agents shop on a person's behalf, owning the technical architecture from models to MCP servers.
Role type
Principal AI Technical Lead (LLM Systems & Architecture)
Builds
An agentic insurance shopping platform using open-weight models and MCP servers
Domain
Insurance / Generative AI / LLM Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Open-weight model fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO), LLM system architecture, model serving and orchestration, Python, Rust, evaluation and guardrails, cost optimization, technical mentorship
Preferred skills
Enterprise-level design experience, strategic thinking, open-source contribution
Technologies
Python, Rust, Open-weight models, MCP server, Cloud platforms
Responsibilities
Own the agent's reasoning architecture and model selection, fine-tune and serve open-weight models, deploy reliable and cost-effective infrastructure, build evaluation sets and monitoring systems, design data models and tools, set engineering patterns and standards, mentor engineers
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with leadership