Lead AI Engineer
Remote, occasional travel to Texas (United States)
$250,000 - $500,000 + Very Generous Equity + Full Health Benefits + PTO
Are you an expert-level AI Engineer with top-tier AI company experience who's ready to take full ownership of AI at a high-growth company and put your stamp on the foundations of a next-generation platform?
This is your opportunity to lead the AI vision at a fast-moving startup that's reshaping how the energy industry finds, understands, and uses information. Backed by strong funding and gaining rapid traction across the industry, they're on a mission to bring intelligent search and community to a market that's ready for innovation.
As the company's go-to AI expert, you'll be responsible for architecting and scaling the core AI capabilities behind their next-generation platform. From model optimization and deployment to working hands-on with customer feedback and real-world data, this is a role where you'll shape not just the product - but the company's future.
You'll work alongside a world-class engineering team and have the chance to grow an AI function from the ground up, starting with IC-heavy execution and transitioning to leadership and team building as the company scales. If you're passionate about cutting-edge AI, bring experience from leading AI organizations, and want to build something truly transformative, this position is for you.
A rare opportunity to shape cutting-edge AI technology in a foundational role - setting technical direction, defining best practices, and driving product strategy, all while accelerating your career growth as the company expands.
The Role:
*Architect and deploy production-level RAG systems in enterprise energy environments
*Work across LLM routing, embedding models, chunking/indexing pipelines, and semantic tagging
*Apply deep expertise in model optimization, pruning, compression, and inference acceleration
*Ingest complex enterprise data and turn it into AI-usable knowledge
*Collaborate closely with clients and internal teams to refine the AI stack
*Build an AI function from the ground up, alongside a team of energy industry domain experts and high-level software engineers
The Person:
*Background from a top-tier AI company with exposure to best practices
*Expert-level knowledge across data engineering, ML, and LLM systems - still comfortable coding, training, and deploying in production
*Proven experience shipping enterprise AI products (RAG, workflow automation, secure B2B AI platforms)
*Startup DNA - thrives in fast-moving environments, able to own problems today and scale a team tomorrow