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Lead AI, Software Engineer

Brilliant®, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63146

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Job Title Lead AI Engineer

Location St. Louis, MO or Atlanta, GA (Hybrid, 2-3 days onsite per week)

Pay Range $80/HR - $100/HR

Benefits Healthcare

About The Role A large enterprise organization is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to help drive a major technology transformation effort. You will guide a team in building cloud-native solutions, scalable APIs, microservices, and AI agents while leveraging modern development practices and AI-powered coding assistants. This role requires strong architectural expertise, cloud depth, and leadership skills. Onsite presence is required three days per week (Tuesday through Thursday).

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and deploy advanced AI agents using frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph

Develop and refine prompt engineering and context management frameworks

Research and integrate emerging AI models, RAG techniques, and agentic frameworks

Architect and operate production-scale AI systems in cloud environments

Establish MLOps best practices for reliability, monitoring, and observability (including Langfuse)

Collaborate with product, data science, and engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions

Champion modern development practices using AI code-assist tools

Manage and mentor software, quality, and reliability engineers

Define and maintain engineering metrics including SLA, SLO, and SLI

Partner with product managers, architects, and SREs on strategy and roadmaps

Lead production troubleshooting and issue resolution

Participate in agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning and Retrospectives

Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and support guides

Deliver clear technical presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences

Required Experience And Skills

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

7+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable systems

Experience in AI or ML including model integration and MLOps

Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph

Strong experience with a major cloud platform and its AI/ML services

3+ years working with Kubernetes workloads

Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and/or Java

Familiarity with front-end frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue

Experience with LLM observability tools (such as Langfuse)

Cloud-native skills including:

Docker containerization

Kubernetes orchestration

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)

CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or Jenkins

Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Firestore)

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise in Generative AI and models such as Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, or Llama

Experience using AI-powered code assistants to accelerate development

Background deploying AI agents into production environments

Strong ability to solve complex and ambiguous technical challenges

Clear communication skills and experience mentoring engineers

Passion for applying advanced AI to real-world, large-scale problems

Brilliant Staffing, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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