Lead AI Engineer (Python) — Remote, Flexible Hours

BairesDev; Chile; Remote; CLP 88,670,000 - 147,783,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from anywhere

Competitive salary in USD

Hardware & software setup for home

Flexible hours

Paid parental leaves & holidays

Mentorship and growth opportunities

Job summary

BairesDev is hiring a Lead AI Engineer (Python) to guide the technical direction and build production-grade AI solutions, including retrieval and modeling architectures. Remote, global impact, with strong collaboration across cross-functional teams.

The role requires 5+ years in software/AI engineering, expertise in RAG systems and Python APIs (FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy), and MLOps experience. Excellent English is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software or AI engineering.
• Expertise in building RAG systems and vector stores.
• Experience deploying LLM APIs and MLOps practices.
• Strong English communication and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of scalable AI systems.
• Build APIs to expose AI capabilities to enterprise apps.
• Establish production deployment, monitoring, and maintenance practices.
• Mentor engineers and align tech with business goals.
• Collaborate to translate requirements into architecture.

Skills

Python

Async APIs

MLOps

Retrieval systems

Team mentoring

English

Tools

FastAPI

Pydantic

SQLAlchemy

LLM APIs

Vector stores

Embeddings pipelines

Job description

BairesDev is hiring a Lead AI Engineer (Python) to guide the technical direction and build production-grade AI solutions, including retrieval and modeling architectures. Remote, global impact, with strong collaboration across cross-functional teams.

The role requires 5+ years in software/AI engineering, expertise in RAG systems and Python APIs (FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy), and MLOps experience. Excellent English is required.