Lead AI Engineer: Bank-Grade, Scalable LLM Systems

Globant; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Globant is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to build advanced AI-driven solutions for digital experiences. You will lead engineering across delivery pods, shaping scalable AI platforms and driving best practices in production-grade LLM systems.

In this role you will champion safety, governance, and performance while integrating AI with core banking systems, and mentoring engineers to raise bar on engineering standards across teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience on high-traffic systems.
• 3+ years building production-grade LLM/Agent AI systems.
• Expertise in Python and/or TypeScript with distributed architectures.
• Leadership in code reviews and setting quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Build and refine AI agent systems and policies.
• Enforce safety and prevent hallucinations in LLM actions.
• Design and optimize RAG pipelines and guardrails.
• Develop automated evaluation for behavior and hallucinations.
• Engineer scalable cloud-native microservices on Kubernetes.
• Integrate AI platform with core banking systems securely.
• Lead engineering standards across delivery pods and mentor engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Latency optimization

Code reviews

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CDK

Kafka

Job description

Globant is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to build advanced AI-driven solutions for digital experiences. You will lead engineering across delivery pods, shaping scalable AI platforms and driving best practices in production-grade LLM systems.

In this role you will champion safety, governance, and performance while integrating AI with core banking systems, and mentoring engineers to raise bar on engineering standards across teams.