AI Engineer (AI Tech Lead)
Position: AI Engineer (AI Tech Lead)
Location: NYC - Midtown Manhattan (2 days onsite hybrid). Local candidates only.
Type of Hire: FTC
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly skilled AI Tech Lead to architect and deliver governed AI, document intelligence, and intelligent automation solutions. The role focuses on designing evidence-grounded agentic workflows that combine LLM reasoning, deterministic validation, human review, and enterprise governance.
Agentic AI & Intelligent Automation
Design governed agentic workflows, including single-agent and multi-agent patterns where appropriate.
Define the appropriate balance of LLM reasoning, deterministic rules, validation services, and human review based on business risk.
Build workflows with confidence handling, exception queues, reviewer actions, risk-aware controls, and traceable decision making.
Document Intelligence & Evidence-Grounded AI
Architect evidence-grounded AI workflows for document-heavy Audit, Tax, Advisory, and benefits-administration use cases.
Design extraction and decision workflows with source traceability, confidence handling, and reproducible audit artifacts.
Ensure AI outputs are explainable and evidence-backed.
Production Engineering & Azure Ownership
Own secure Azure production architecture including Entra ID, APIs, Container Apps, Functions, AI Search, observability, and operational readiness.
Drive deployment, release controls, rollback readiness, incident diagnosis, and cost optimization.
Evaluation, Governance & Quality
Establish evaluation, regression, traceability, and approval mechanisms for prompts, models, configurations, and business-rule changes.
Develop benchmark datasets, drift analysis, validation frameworks, and quality gates.
Leadership
Translate ambiguous client and SME needs into scoped technical designs, delivery plans, acceptance criteria, and risk decisions.
Lead client-facing technical discovery and mentor engineers through design, implementation, testing, and production support.
Required Skills
Azure OpenAI, RAG, Azure AI Search, Azure Document Intelligence
Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, SQL, Microservices
Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions, API Management, Entra ID, Docker
LLMOps, evaluation, regression testing, monitoring and observability
React integration, MCP concepts, coding agents (Codex, Claude Code)
Audit, Tax, Advisory, Benefits Administration domain experience
Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.