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Lead AI Engineer

Newfold Digital
Full-time
On-site
Remote
The impact you’ll make Set the technical architecture for our agent-powered platform, choosing the right mix of LLMs, retrieval tech, and micro-service patterns to meet reliability, cost, and latency targets.

Drive architecture

for high-throughput APIs built with .NET, C#,

Python 3.11+, FastAPI async, SQLModel, and Semantic Kernel —from design docs through production roll-out.

Lead multi-agent orchestration

(handoff, sequential, concurrent) that combines knowledge-grounded and tool-calling agents across

OpenAI GPT-5/4.1/mini, Google Gemini 2.5 Flash , and future providers.

Guide teams implementing

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

on

Azure AI Search, pgvector, Chroma , ensuring index quality, filtering, and safety checks.

Own

end-to-end CI/CD pipelines

(Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins or similar): lint, type-check, security scan, test, containerize, and deploy.

Mentor and hire

engineers; Adopt

AI coding agents (Cursor , Claude Code) as force multipliers while safeguarding code quality.

Champion

observability and FinOps

for LLM workloads—structlog JSON, OTEL tracing, LangFuse, cost dashboards; keep p95

Partner with Product and Security to translate business goals, compliance needs, and user feedback into a pragmatic technical roadmap.

5+ years

building and scaling production back-ends; 2 + years in a tech-lead or staff role.

Expert in REST API design and development:Python FastAPI or . NET C# APIs. With experience in dependency-injection patterns,middleware, profiling, and optimization.

Hands-on leader with

Semantic Kernel

(or equivalent agent/LLM frameworks) and production LLM orchestration.

Delivered at least one RAG system/pipeline using a vector store (Azure AI Search, pgvector, Chroma or equivalent) with measurable latency/quality KPIs.

Deep Postgres expertise plus

SQLModel / SQLAlchemy 2

and

Alembic

migrations at scale.

Proven track record integrating multiple LLM providers and implementing structured-output + tool-calling workflows.

Fluency with

Poetry , Docker, GitHub Actions (or Azure/Argo), IaC basics, and blue/green or canary release strategies.

Strong people-leadership: code reviews, technical mentoring, roadmap planning, and cross-team communication.

Message-queue architectures (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Service Bus).

Experience with GPU inference fleets or serverless model hosting.

Familiarity with cost-aware prompt engineering and automatic evaluation pipelines.

You’ll steer the core brains of our AI products—building an LLM-agnostic, agent-driven platform that delights millions of users while meeting enterprise-grade reliability and governance. If you thrive on big technical bets, love mentoring, and want room to shape both code and culture, we’d love to meet you. Employment with Newfold Digital is at-will and nothing in this Job Description should be interpreted or construed to alter the at-will employment relationship. This Job Description includes the essential job functions required to perform the job described above, as well as additional duties and responsibilities. This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee performing this job may be required to perform. The Company reserves the right to revise the Job Description at any time, and to require the employee to perform functions in addition to those listed above.