AI Engineering Lead - Production AI, Microsoft Stack

IMA Financial Group, Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 147,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus

Stock Purchase

Medical Plan

Dental Vision

401(k)

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Flexible Hours

Job summary

IMA Financial Group, Inc. is seeking a founding AI Engineer Lead to design, build, and scale enterprise AI capabilities from the ground up. You will own critical AI systems, craft patterns, and deliver production-grade copilots, agents, and workflows integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem.

You will work with business, product, and data teams to translate needs into reliable AI solutions, writing production code and shaping how AI gets built across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or AI/LLM experience.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying production AI systems.
• Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs and modern AI tooling.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred), Python, APIs, containerization, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience building RAG pipelines, agent-based workflows, or orchestration layers.
• Experience with vector databases, embedding pipelines, and retrieval systems.
• Strong problem-solving ability and bias toward practical, efficient solutions; ability to operate in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production-grade end-to-end AI solutions, including workflow automation agents, RAG pipelines, and copilots embedded in business workflows, and LLM-driven applications.
• Translate business needs into technical designs and working products to deliver usable, high-impact solutions, not just proofs of concept.
• Architect and implement AI-assisted data workflows and agentic systems.
• Build and maintain LLM-enabled services, prompt frameworks, and coding standards.
• Develop semantic/context layers ensuring AI outputs align with business logic and data models.
• Design multi-agent workflows, including human-in-the-loop controls.
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs to ship quickly while maintaining long-term sustainability.

Skills

AI/LLM

Software engineering

Azure

Python

APIs

CI/CD

Containerization

RAG pipelines

Agent-based workflows

Vector databases

Job description

IMA Financial Group, Inc. is seeking a founding AI Engineer Lead to design, build, and scale enterprise AI capabilities from the ground up. You will own critical AI systems, craft patterns, and deliver production-grade copilots, agents, and workflows integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem.

You will work with business, product, and data teams to translate needs into reliable AI solutions, writing production code and shaping how AI gets built across the organization.