AI Engineering Lead
Location
Colorado
Posted
12 days ago
Salary
$147K - $220K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
AI Engineering Lead
IMA Financial Group, Inc.
• Design, build, and deploy production-grade end-to-end AI solutions, including workflow automation agents, RAG pipelines, and copilots embedded in business workflows, and LLM-driven applications • Translate business needs into technical designs and working products to deliver usable, high-impact solutions, not just proofs of concept • Architect and implement AI-assisted data workflows and agentic systems • Build and maintain LLM-enabled services, prompt frameworks, and coding standards • Develop semantic/context layers ensuring AI outputs align with business logic and data models • Design multi-agent workflows, including human-in-the-loop controls • Make pragmatic tradeoffs to ship quickly while maintaining long-term sustainability • Create scalable patterns for prompt design & orchestration, agent-based workflows, and API integrations & data access • Inform architecture decisions for AI systems balancing speed, security, scalability, maintainability, and cost • Help establish engineering standards and best practices for applied AI across the organization • Establish reusable components, frameworks, and templates to accelerate AI development • Integrate AI automation with enterprise systems, APIs, and data platforms • Evaluate and recommend tooling across the stack (models, frameworks, vector stores, orchestration layers) • Define data requirements and, when needed, build or extend data pipelines to ensure AI systems have reliable, production-ready inputs • Design and implement evaluation frameworks to define and track AI system performance, including task success, accuracy, latency, cost, and business impact; establish feedback loops to continuously improve quality, reliability, and cost-efficacy in production environments • Build guardrails and validation layers to reduce hallucinations, enforce structured outputs, and ensure safe system behavior • Establish monitoring and observability across AI systems (performance, usage, cost, latency, failure modes) • Implement modern engineering practices including CI/CD, versioning, rollback strategies, and automated testing • Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and governance requirements in a regulated environment • Partner with business leaders, operations & service teams, and product stakeholders to shape use cases and turn them into working solutions • Work closely with AI Enablement to refine workflows and improve adoption • Drive fast iteration cycles, quickly moving from idea to working solution to scaled implementation; iterate solutions based on real user feedback and usage patterns
Job Requirements
- 7-10+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or AI/LLM experience
- Hands-on experience building and deploying production AI systems
- Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs and modern AI tooling
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred), Python, APIs, containerization, and CI/CD practices
- Experience building RAG pipelines, agent-based workflows, or orchestration layers
- Experience with vector databases, embedding pipelines, and retrieval systems
- Strong problem-solving ability and bias toward practical, efficient solutions; ability to operate in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
- Experience translating business needs into technical solutions
Benefits
- Annual Performance Bonus
- Stock Purchase
- Medical Plans
- Prescription Drugs
- Dental
- Vision
- Family Assistance Program
- FSA
- HSA
- Pre-Tax Parking Plan
- 401(k)
- Life/AD&D
- Accident
- Critical Illness
- Hospital Indemnity
- Long Term Care
- Short-term Disability
- Long-term Disability
- Business Travel Accident
- Identity Theft
- Paid Time Off
- Flexible Work Options
- Paid Holidays
- Sabbatical
- Gift Matching
- Well-Being Stipend
- Personal and Professional Development
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