Lead AI Engineer & Systems Architect

New Ocean IS Co., Ltd.; Maiori; On-site; EUR 18,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthy Insurance

Competitive salary

13th month salary

Salary reviews twice a year

Job summary

AIQuinta in Ho Chi Minh City is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to design and deliver AI systems, including LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and AI agent workflows. You will own architecture decisions, drive scalable cloud-native solutions, and mentor a growing engineering team.

Candidates should have 5+ years in AI/ML with leadership experience, strong backend and cloud infrastructure skills, and a track record of delivering reliable, performant systems. On-site role with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or related fields.
• 5+ years working in AI/ML or related fields, 1–2 years in technical leadership or team lead roles.
• Strong experience in system design and solution architecture for scalable applications.
• Solid experience with AI/LLM systems:, LLM APIs & integration, LangChain / LangGraph (or similar), NLP fundamentals.
• Experience building RAG pipelines and AI agent systems.
• Strong backend skills: Microservices architecture, REST APIs / WebSocket, Distributed & async systems.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS / Azure / GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Data & Messaging: SQL / NoSQL databases, Message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• DevOps: CI/CD pipelines ,Deployment & monitoring.
• Understanding of reliability, security, and scalability.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum.
• Familiar with AI coding tools like Claude, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of AI systems (LLM apps, RAG, AI agents).
• Define and drive technical architecture aligned with business goals.
• Design scalable, cloud-native systems using microservices.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle: design → build → deploy → monitor.
• Build and optimize: LLM applications, RAG pipelines, AI agent workflows.
• Ensure production readiness: scalability, reliability, performance, cost.
• Implement HA, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Maintain engineering best practices: code quality, CI/CD, testing.
• Lead and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, BA, QA, DevOps).
• Evaluate new technologies and drive AI-first development practices.

Skills

Leadership

AI system design

LLM integration

Microservices

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Kafka

Redis

LangChain

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or related fields

Tools

LangChain / LangGraph

LLM APIs

REST APIs / WebSocket

AWS / Azure / GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

AIQuinta in Ho Chi Minh City is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to design and deliver AI systems, including LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and AI agent workflows. You will own architecture decisions, drive scalable cloud-native solutions, and mentor a growing engineering team.

Candidates should have 5+ years in AI/ML with leadership experience, strong backend and cloud infrastructure skills, and a track record of delivering reliable, performant systems. On-site role with competitive compensation.