ML Team Lead

Were seeking a Team Lead - Generative AI Engineer to lead a team of engineers in designing, developing, and deploying production-grade AI systems. This role is ideal for someone who is both a strong technical contributor and an experienced people leader-capable of driving architecture decisions, mentoring team members, and delivering innovative AI solutions at scale.
You will be responsible for guiding the end-to-end lifecycle of Generative AI applications, ensuring technical excellence, scalability, and alignment with business needs. This includes working across backend systems, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and cloud-native deployments.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management Lead and mentor a team of AI/ML engineers, fostering growth and technical excellence.
Define and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and best practices.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into AI-driven solutions.
Manage project timelines, technical risks, and team deliverables.
Generative AI & Prompt Engineering Integrate and optimize applications using LLM provider APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.).
Design prompts with advanced techniques (few-shot, chain-of-thought, chaining, context crafting).
Implement safeguards (guardrails, structured output validation, injection protection).
Architecture & Backend Development Build scalable backend services in .NET (C#) and Python, working with SQL and APIs.
Develop and manage RAG pipelines, conversational AI systems, and summarization tools.
Drive observability: tracing, logging, monitoring for LLM-powered systems.
Evaluation & Optimization Benchmark and evaluate LLMs using custom datasets and automated testing.
Oversee system reliability, performance tuning, caching, and optimization.
Ensure solutions meet enterprise-grade standards for security and scalability.