AI Engineering Lead — Remote | Build AI-First Platform

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Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

Next Chapter Technology seeks a Head of AI Engineering to spearhead our transition into an AI-first platform. You will personally design and prove the first AI capabilities, then scale the team and adopt modern workflows with a hands-on, build-solo-first approach.

You will balance technical delivery with people leadership, refactor legacy systems into cloud-native services, and ensure compliant, secure deployment across government-adjacent programs.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of hands-on software engineering with modernization of complex architectures.
  • Production AI experience delivering AI/ML systems end-to-end.
  • Experience as a founding or first AI engineer delivering baseline architecture solo.
  • Strong business acumen, coachability, and intellectual humility.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build NCT's foundational AI capabilities (RAG, code generation, LLM orchestration, multi-agent workflows).
  • Refactor legacy components into scalable cloud-native services and automate workflows.
  • Lead delivery, mentor engineers, and establish engineering rhythms for an AI-native organization.
  • Ensure safe, compliant execution within government-adjacent/public-sector frameworks.

Skills

Software engineering
AI/ML systems
Leadership
Refactoring judgment

Tools

Microsoft stack
Azure ML
Azure OpenAI

Job description

Next Chapter Technology seeks a Head of AI Engineering to spearhead our transition into an AI-first platform. You will personally design and prove the first AI capabilities, then scale the team and adopt modern workflows with a hands-on, build-solo-first approach.

You will balance technical delivery with people leadership, refactor legacy systems into cloud-native services, and ensure compliant, secure deployment across government-adjacent programs.

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