AI Engineering Team Lead

Ambition; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambition is seeking a hands-on AI Engineering Team Lead in Hong Kong to design, build and scale enterprise AI products used by real business users. You will lead a talented team of AI and software engineers, shaping architecture across AI platforms, orchestration, and workflow automation.

You will work closely with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable AI solutions while remaining actively involved in coding, code reviews and technical decision-making.

Qualifications

• 8-15 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience deploying production AI solutions.
• Strong understanding of AI agents, agent orchestration and enterprise AI architectures.
• Proficient in Python, FastAPI, TypeScript/Node.js and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and deployment of production AI applications and AI agent solutions.
• Mentor and support a team of AI and software engineers.
• Drive architecture decisions across AI platforms, agent orchestration and workflow automation.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Establish engineering standards, best practices and delivery processes.
• Oversee solution delivery from discovery and design through deployment and production support.
• Contribute hands-on to coding, troubleshooting and architectural reviews.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Python

FastAPI

TypeScript/Node.js

Cloud platforms

Docker & Kubernetes

Stakeholder management

Hands-on leadership

Tools

LangGraph

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

Multi-Agent Systems

LLM Evaluation & Guardrails

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and deployment of production AI applications and AI agent solutions
• Mentor and support a team of AI and software engineers
• Drive architecture decisions across AI platforms, agent orchestration and workflow automation
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Establish engineering standards, best practices and delivery processes
• Oversee solution delivery from discovery and design through deployment and production support
• Contribute hands-on to coding, troubleshooting and architectural reviews

Requirements

• 8-15 years of software engineering experience
• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams
• Recent hands-on experience building and deploying production AI solutions
• Strong understanding of AI agents, agent orchestration and enterprise AI architectures
• Experience with technologies such as:
• LangGraph
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• Multi-Agent Systems
• LLM Evaluation and Guardrails
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience in:
• Python
• FastAPI
• TypeScript / Node.js
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience deploying solutions used by real business users in production environments
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

What's Important

We're looking for a builder first.

The ideal candidate has personally designed and built AI solutions, understands production challenges, enjoys solving complex problems, and can provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on.

We are looking for a hands-on AI Engineering Team Lead to help build and scale enterprise AI products used by real business users.

This is a technical leadership position for someone who enjoys both building production AI systems and leading engineers. You'll work closely with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions while remaining actively involved in architecture, coding, code reviews and technical decision-making.