AI Solutions Lead

Firmwerx; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Firmwerx is seeking an AI Solutions Lead to sit with clients, deeply understand their business, and identify high-leverage AI opportunities. You will design, build, and ship production-grade AI solutions, while owning timelines and client communications as a player-coach.

This hybrid role blends product, engineering, and delivery. You’ll work hands-on with OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and other frontier tools to meet client objectives and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Qualifications

• Senior engineer with leadership track record and delivery of production-grade software.
• Hands-on with OpenAI/Anthropic/Cursor and frontier tooling in daily workflow.
• Strong client communication and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements end-to-end: understand problem, design solution, build, deliver.
• Build production software hands-on using leading AI platforms.
• Own timelines, client communication, and deliverables independently.

Skills

Senior engineer

TypeScript

React

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Cloud infrastructure

Client communication

Autonomy

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic/Claude Code

Cursor

LangChain

CrewAI

Job description

About This Role

Firmwerx is hiring an AI Solutions Lead, a leadership role for a senior builder who can sit with a client, understand their business deeply, identify the highest-leverage AI opportunities, and then go build the solution.

This is the hybrid product / engineering / delivery role. You're a senior engineer who works hands-on every day with the leading AI platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and other frontier tooling) because that's how the best builders deliver client outcomes today. You use these tools as best practice to ship the best possible customer experience and meet client objectives, not as a novelty.

You take full ownership. From the first client conversation to the shipped product, you own it. You don't wait for specifications. You assess the situation, define the plan, and execute. You're a player-coach who thinks in systems, communicates with clarity, and ships production software.

The critical competency is the rare combination of deep technical ability, strong client communication, consulting instincts, and the judgment to know what to build, how to build it, and when it's truly ready for a client to depend on.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements end-to-end: understand the problem, design the solution, build it, deliver it
• Build production software hands-on using OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and other leading AI platforms, applied as best practice for the client's objectives
• Own project timelines, client communication, and deliverables independently without needing a separate project manager
• Sit with clients to understand their business deeply, then translate that understanding into technical solutions
• Identify AI opportunities clients haven't considered and bring them forward with a clear point of view
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new AI tools, models, and frameworks to keep client outcomes ahead of the market
• Partner directly with Firmwerx leadership on strategy, client priorities, and how we deliver
• Set the quality bar for technical output. Your work is production-grade, not prototype-grade

Requirements

• Senior software engineering experience with a track record of leading projects and shipping products clients depend on
• Builds hands-on with leading AI platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic / Claude Code, Cursor, and similar) as part of your daily workflow, not as experiments
• Full-stack proficiency: TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Vercel, or similar)
• Consulting-style client communication. You can sit with executives, explain technical concepts in plain language, and make them feel confident about the path forward
• Self-directed and autonomous. You thrive with minimal oversight and take initiative without being asked
• Critical thinker who goes deep, not shallow, and solves hard problems rather than easy ones
• Experience with LLM integrations, AI agent frameworks, RAG systems, or similar AI/ML production implementations
• Comfortable owning engagements independently: timelines, scope, client expectations, and deliverables

Nice to Have

• Experience in professional services (legal, accounting, financial advisory, consulting). Understanding these industries accelerates everything
• Background in consulting or agency work where you owned client relationships while building
• Experience with AI agent orchestration frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, custom agent systems)
• Product management or product strategy experience, whether formal or informal
• Open source contributions or published technical writing
• Creative compensation. We structure compensation to align with how you actually want to work and the outcomes you drive
• Fully remote. Work from anywhere, deliver consistently
• Direct, hands-on access to the leading AI platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and other frontier tooling) including enterprise API tiers where it matters
• Small team, high impact. No bureaucracy and no layers between you and meaningful work
• A real seat at the table to shape the technical direction of an AI-native company