Head of AI Engineering
Core
Lead the AI engineering team to build and deploy production AI systems that remove manual effort across IT and business functions, ensuring systems are measured against pre-agreed baselines and run securely in production.
Role type
Senior IC/Manager Head of AI Engineering
Builds
Production AI systems, internal AI platform (prompt libraries, evaluation harnesses, reusable agents), and automated workflows for IT and business departments.
Domain
Financial services / AI Engineering / Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Machine learning models, large language models (LLMs), generative AI, Python, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), vector search, containerization (Docker), CI/CD pipelines, model evaluation and drift detection, prompt engineering, agent orchestration, cloud cost management, data protection in regulated environments.
Preferred skills
PyTorch, TensorFlow, financial services experience, trading domain knowledge.
Technologies
Python, AWS, Docker, REST APIs, microservices, vector search, LLM providers.
Responsibilities
Lead a team of AI engineers and process specialists; define technical direction and code quality; identify productivity opportunities by analyzing workflows; establish measurement baselines before building; manage the delivery queue and prioritize backlog; enforce data layer permissions and security reviews; own production practices (monitoring, on-call); maintain the internal AI platform; evaluate models and vendors on evidence; plan capacity and hiring; propose changes to delivery methods.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
