Hands-On AI Engineering Lead

Acclime; Jakarta Selatan; On-site; IDR 2,684,324,000 - 4,115,963,000; Full time

Job summary

Acclime is seeking a hands-on Principal AI Engineering Lead to drive the engineering transformation, shape scalable AI practices, and improve delivery quality, security, and team maturity for the Indonesian tech team while guiding end-to-end automation workflows and mini apps across APAC markets.

This is not a traditional management role; you will code, review, design solutions, and mentor a team of developers, translating business processes into working software and bridging analysts with

Qualifications

• 8+ years software engineering with at least 3 years in a technical lead or engineering manager role where you continued coding
• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale AI engineering initiatives, including AI solution design, experimentation, evaluation, integration, deployment, and support
• Strong full-stack development skills — comfortable across backend, APIs, and front-end as needed
• Strong engineering governance experience covering secure SDLC, code review practices, CI/CD, automated testing, environment management, release readiness, and operational support
• Working knowledge of AI/ML integration — prompt engineering, API orchestration, document AI/OCR, embedding models
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure and GCP preferred)
• Track record of translating business processes into technical solutions in a services or enterprise context
• Demonstrated ability to lead and grow development teams (4-10 people)
• Strong communication skills — able to explain technical concepts to business stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Lead by example with hands-on coding and reviews
• Leverage AI engineering patterns, evaluation frameworks, model integration standards, and observability practices for production-grade AI solutions
• Establish coding standards, review processes, and technical best practices across the team
• Embed secure-by-design and responsible AI practices across solution design, data handling, model usage, deployment, and ongoing operations
• Translate business process maps into technical specifications and system designs
• Work with process analysts to understand each mini-app workflow's business logic and edge cases
• Create technical documentation, decision records, and architecture diagrams
• Map dependencies between workflows and identify reusable components
• Drive team transformation by improving engineering operating models, delivery discipline, accountability, and adoption of new development standards
• Coach engineers and technical leads through organizational and technical change, developing a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence
• Partner closely with DevSecOps, QA, Product, and Project Management functions to improve release governance, engineering hygiene, dependency management, and delivery predictability
• Present technical progress, risks, and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
• Participate in programme committee meetings with clear, outcome-focused updates
• Convert business requirements into achievable technical roadmaps
• Support change management by explaining technical capabilities and limitations to country teams

Skills

Software engineering

AI engineering leadership

Full-stack development

Secure SDLC

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

Azure

GCP

OpenAI API

Anthropic Claude

Google Gemini

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Acclime is seeking a hands-on Principal AI Engineering Lead to drive the engineering transformation, shape scalable AI practices, and improve delivery quality, security, and team maturity for the Indonesian tech team while guiding end-to-end automation workflows and mini apps across APAC markets.

This is not a traditional management role; you will code, review, design solutions, and mentor a team of developers, translating business processes into working software and bridging analysts with