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Lead AI Engineer

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

$80/HR - $100/HR

Healthcare

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).

• Design, build, and deploy advanced AI agents using frameworks such as Lang Chain and Lang Graph
• 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

• 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 Lang Chain or Lang Graph
• Strong experience with a major cloud platform and its AI/ML services
• 3+ years working with Kubernetes workloads
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/Type Script, 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 Cloud Formation)
  • CI/CD tools such as Git Hub Actions, Argo CD, or Jenkins
• Experience with SQL and No
  
  SQL databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, Mongo
  
  DB, Dynamo
  
  DB, Firestore)

• 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.