Skm Group
AI

AI Development Lead / AI Engineering Lead [J476]

Skm Group · Remote, IE · $59k

Actively hiring Posted 4 months ago

We’re looking for an AI Development Lead to own the technical execution of production-grade AI systems. This role combines hands-on AI engineering with technical leadership, ensuring high-quality delivery of agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, evaluations, and integrations with zero drift from architecture to production.

You’ll lead and mentor AI engineers, enforce engineering standards, unblock complex problems, and ensure AI features are reliable, observable, secure, and performant.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead implementation of agentic workflows, RAG systems, retrieval pipelines, and AI features
  • Translate solution architecture into clear engineering plans and sprint execution
  • Architect and build multi-agent systems, evaluators, tool calls, and guardrails
  • Enforce code quality, standards, and best practices through reviews and mentorship
  • Own performance, reliability, observability, and cost control
  • Guide CI/CD, deployments, and production readiness for AI workloads
  • Coach and grow AI engineers across the team

Required Skills

  • Strong Python engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, agentic systems
  • Experience integrating models (Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, Anthropic, etc.) into production
  • Solid understanding of cloud architecture (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
  • Experience with microservices, APIs, data pipelines, and observability
  • Strong CI/CD, Git, and DevOps fundamentals

Leadership Experience

  • 5+ years leading engineers or complex AI/ML delivery tracks
  • Proven ability to deliver high-quality AI systems under tight timelines
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills (UX, QA, architecture, product)

What do we offer you?

  • Attractive salary
  • Large freedom and real influence
  • No unhealthy competition, team approach to meeting challenges
  • Remote-first, flexible working culture
  • Company apartments in cool cities across Europe: work and enjoy a memorable getaway

About Us

We are a software house with 18 years of experience and a global portfolio of projects. We help businesses modernize, scale, and innovate through custom software solutions. Our team embraces unconventional ideas and new technologies, delivering solutions with real impact. If you value professionalism, creativity, and a strong engineering culture, you'll feel at home here.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: €54,000.00-€120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Work from home

Experience:

  • Leadership: 3 years (required)
  • Python: 5 years (required)

Work Location: Remote

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