AI Technical Lead

About Sayari:

Sayari is a risk intelligence provider that provides the public and private sectors with immediate visibility into complex commercial relationships by delivering the largest commercially available collection of corporate and trade data from over 250 jurisdictions worldwide. Sayari's solutions enable risk resilience, mission-critical investigations, and better economic decisions.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Sayari's solutions are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and government agencies, and are used globally in over 35 countries. Funded by world-class investors, with a strategic $228 million investment by TPG Inc. (NASDAQ: TPG) in 2024, Sayari has been recognized by the Inc. 5000 and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States and was featured as one of Inc.'s "Best Workplaces" for 2025.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

As an AI Engineer, Technical Lead you will play a key role in defining and building out Sayari's AI-enhanced products capabilities. We have ideas and opportunities across our product line for agentic AI. This role will research and prototype capabilities with successful innovations moving to productization. You will work closely with engineering teams in that productization. A key aspect of this role is to stay current and to have sufficient resources for innovation. At Sayari, you will have both. With a customer-centric mindset, you will interact directly with senior leaders, engineers on other teams, designers, and product management to help drive use of Gen AI in our solutions.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Proof of Concept (POC) Development: Develop POCs to validate and highlight the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed AI solutions. Collaborate with development teams to implement and iterate on POCs, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and expectations.
• Solution Implementation and Deployment: Oversee the implementation and deployment of AI solutions, working closely with development teams to ensure adherence to best practices, quality standards, and performance requirements. Provide technical guidance and support during the implementation phase.
• Solution Optimization and Performance: Continuously monitor, Control model drift, and optimize the performance of AI solutions, including foundational models and large language models. Identify opportunities to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and speed through fine-tuning, algorithmic improvements, or infrastructure optimization.
  
  

• 2+ years of experience with Generative AI models and techniques, such as LLMs, fine-tuning, RAG, prompt engineering, guardrails, distillation, and agent frameworks.
• Experience with GenAI frameworks such as LangChain
• 4+ years in Python and JVM programming language (e.g. Scala, other)
• 4+ years in persistence technologies: SQL, Databricks, Snowflake, Elastic, BigQuery, Graph
• 2+ years in ETL pipeline technologies: Airflow, Spark
• 2+ years of relevant industry experience driving cutting-edge research into real world impact.
• Strong technical communicator who can convey complex topics to different audiences.
  
  

• Mandatory Benefits provided including Statutory Pension, Study Fund, Monthly meal allowance provided via Cibus (or equivalent), monthly transportation costs by law, cover parking expenses when you come into the office.
• Generous time off - 20 vacation days per year, paid public holidays as mandated by law, paid sick leave from day one, recreation pay, travel expenses and additional statutory Entitlements.
• 1,000 ILS per new employee for home office equipment
• Holiday gifts for Rosh Hashanah and Passover (500 ILS Gift card)
• Outstanding compensation package; competitive commissions for revenue roles and quarterly bonuses for non-revenue positions.
• A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• A collaborative and positive culture - your team will be as smart and driven as you
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities