[Remote] Lead AI Engineer, Work From Home
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Parallel Partners is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to own the design, development, and delivery of production AI systems. This role involves leading a global engineering team to build scalable AI systems that impact real users and business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of production AI systems powering insurance workflow automation
- Architect AI orchestration layers connecting LLMs, backend services, and business workflows
- Own end-to-end AI system design, including inference pipelines, routing, caching, and fallback strategies
- Drive engineering decisions around latency, reliability, cost, and scalability of AI services
- Lead implementation of Observability Systems (logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting)
- Review and guide backend AI implementation across engineering teams
- Collaborate with product, backend, DevOps, and operations teams to ship end-to-end AI features
- Debug complex production issues across distributed AI systems and lead root-cause analysis
- Define engineering standards and best practices for AI system development
- Mentor engineers and elevate technical execution quality across teams
Skills
- Strong backend or AI engineering experience in production environments
- Experience building or scaling AI systems (LLMs, embeddings, recommendation systems, or automation workflows)
- Strong system design skills with experience in distributed systems
- Experience with production inference pipelines and AI orchestration
- Strong debugging ability in high-scale, latency-sensitive environments
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident response
- Proven ability to lead technical execution in cross-functional teams
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive projects end-to-end
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, globally distributed teams
- Tech Stack: Anthropic, Distributed Systems Tools, Docker, Kubernetes, LLM APIs, Node.js, NoSQL, Observability Stack (Logging, Metrics, Tracing), OpenAI, Open-Source Models, Python, and SQL
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental
- Vision
- Savings Plan Options
- PTO
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