Machine Learning Team Lead (NLP, LLM)

Overview

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We’re 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.

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