Lead AI Engineer

WE ARE HIRING: Lead AI EngineerLocation: Remote (Sri Lanka)

Employment Type: Full Time

Industry: Artificial Intelligence / Analytics Platform / SaaS Technology

Role OverviewWe are seeking an experienced Lead AI Engineer to drive the technical direction of a cutting-edge AI-powered analytics platform that enables business users to gain insights from enterprise data through natural language queries. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for designing and developing the AI core, agent architecture, knowledge systems, evaluation frameworks, and predictive intelligence capabilities that power enterprise-grade AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and enhance the agent runtime and orchestration framework for complex multi-step business analysis.

• Design systems that plan investigations, execute parallel queries, coordinate specialized AI agents, and generate actionable insights.

• Own natural language to SQL and DAX query generation capabilities across enterprise data environments.

• Develop deterministic query generation patterns and governed metric layers to ensure accuracy and reliability.

• Design and maintain ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, and retrieval systems that power AI reasoning.

• Develop anomaly detection, clustering, forecasting, and recommendation capabilities to proactively deliver business insights.

• Optimize AI systems for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and responsiveness.

• Implement model tiering, prompt optimization, caching strategies, streaming responses, and parallel processing techniques.

• Develop evaluation frameworks, testing processes, release gates, and experimentation methodologies for AI systems.

• Ensure AI security through row-level access controls, prompt injection defenses, schema pruning, and tool governance.

• Support rapid onboarding of new business domains through configurable AI frameworks.

• Provide technical leadership while remaining actively involved in hands-on engineering and problem solving.

Candidate Profile

• Strong track record in AI Engineering with recent experience delivering production-grade LLM-based systems.

• Hands-on expertise building agentic AI systems including orchestration, tool usage, structured outputs, and multi-step planning.

• Strong SQL skills and deep understanding of enterprise data warehouses.

• Experience troubleshooting and optimizing AI-generated outputs across prompts, queries, and data schemas.

• Experience building ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, or retrieval-augmented systems.

• Proven success designing evaluation frameworks for non-deterministic AI systems.

• Experience developing predictive analytics solutions including anomaly detection, clustering, and forecasting.

• Strong software engineering skills with production-grade Python development.

• Experience building asynchronous services, streaming APIs, and scalable AI architectures.

• Ability to define technical strategy while remaining actively involved in implementation.

Preferred Skills

• Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and DAX.

• Azure ecosystem experience.

• Vector databases such as pgvector.

• LLM observability and AI cost optimization tools.

• Multi-tenant SaaS platform experience.

• TypeScript knowledge.

• Experience working within early-stage product environments.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on advanced AI and agentic systems solving real enterprise challenges.

• Remote-first working environment with a highly experienced senior team.

• Direct interaction with clients and exposure to complex business problems.

• Significant influence over product direction and technical architecture.

• Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and enterprise-scale deployments.

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