Lead AI Engineer 235659

Location: Haifa, Israel
Job ID: 235659
We are looking for an experienced Lead AI Engineer with a proven leadership background to lead the design, development and enterprise-wide implementation of advanced AI solutions within a large and complex organization.
This key role combines technological leadership, solution architecture and hands-on development with direct team leadership, strategic planning and collaboration across multiple business and technology functions.
The position focuses on RAG systems, AI Agents, LLM-based solutions, enterprise integrations and hybrid environments combining Microsoft Azure and On-Prem infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities

Lead and professionally manage a team of AI developers, including task allocation, mentoring, code quality standards and ongoing technical guidance.
Build and execute short-term and long-term AI roadmaps, including timelines, milestones, delivery management and risk mitigation.
Design the architecture of AI solutions based on LLMs, RAG and AI Agents.
Take an active hands-on role in developing end-to-end, production-grade AI services.
Build RAG pipelines, including ingestion, chunking, embeddings, indexing and retrieval.
Develop reusable components as part of an enterprise AI platform.
Integrate AI solutions with enterprise systems, including SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Graph API, Teams and additional APIs.
Implement security, authorization and data-loss prevention mechanisms.
Work closely with business units to lead AI use cases from initial concept and POC through enterprise production deployment.
Collaborate with IT, infrastructure, cybersecurity, regulatory and business stakeholders.

Mandatory Requirements

At least 2 years of proven experience leading a development team as a Tech Lead or Team Lead in AI, Data Science or Software Engineering.
Experience working in a large-scale enterprise environment with multiple stakeholders and complex organizational processes.
Strong hands-on Python development experience, including building production-grade services and pipelines.
Proven experience developing and deploying RAG systems in production.
Hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI or OpenAI.
Strong experience in software architecture, complex system design and API development.
Ability to combine technical leadership and team management with hands-on development.

Advantages

Experience with Azure AI Search and Azure App Services.
Experience with Semantic Kernel or LangChain.
Experience integrating with SharePoint and Microsoft Graph API.
Experience working in hybrid Cloud and On-Prem environments.
Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise ERP systems, such as SAP.
Experience in matrix management or leading complex projects involving IT, cybersecurity and regulatory stakeholders.

Personal Attributes

Strong leadership, mentoring and decision-making capabilities.
Strategic and business-oriented thinking.
Ability to translate business needs into clear, measurable and sustainable technology plans.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical solutions to business, technology and management stakeholders.
Proactive, curious and highly motivated, with a broad systems perspective.
Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment and make sound decisions under uncertainty.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in building and leading an enterprise AI capability, combining technological depth, hands-on development, team leadership and the implementation of secure, reliable and scalable AI solutions.
The position is open to all qualified candidates.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person