AI Tech Lead

Mindlance; Washington (District of Columbia, MD); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindlance is seeking an experienced Applied AI Engineering Lead to drive design and delivery of enterprise-scale AI solutions. The role focuses on LLMs, multi-agent systems, intelligent automation, and cloud-native AI architectures to modernize business processes and improve efficiency.

You will collaborate with product managers, enterprise architects, and engineering teams to translate strategic objectives into scalable AI-powered solutions, leading cross-functional teams across onshore and

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, IT, Data Science, AI, or Engineering.
• Minimum 10+ years of professional software engineering and enterprise solution delivery experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud architecture and modern application development.
• Proven experience delivering AI/ML and Generative AI solutions in large enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and implementation of enterprise-scale AI solutions.
• Drive adoption of LLMs, agentic AI, and cloud-native architectures.
• Define AI solution patterns, standards, and governance frameworks.

Skills

10+ years of software engineering

5+ years cloud architecture

Agile/Scrum

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Master's degree in CS/IT/DS/AI/Engineering

Tools

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Hybrid Onsite: 4 days per week from Day 1, with a full transition to 100% onsite anticipated soon

Background

The organization is seeking an experienced Applied AI Engineering Lead to drive the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-scale Agentic AI solutions. The role will lead the adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), multi-agent systems, intelligent automation, and cloud-native AI architectures to modernize business processes, accelerate knowledge management, enhance incident management capabilities, and improve operational efficiency.

The successful candidate will work closely with product managers, enterprise architects, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to transform strategic objectives into scalable AI-powered solutions.

Objectives

• Improve operational efficiency through AI-driven workflows.
• Enable intelligent knowledge discovery and content generation.
• Support incident detection, diagnosis, and remediation processes.
• Accelerate digital transformation initiatives across business functions.
• Establish AI engineering standards, governance, and best practices.

Scope of Work

AI Strategy & Solution Architecture

• Design enterprise AI architectures leveraging LLMs, Agentic AI frameworks, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), MCP Servers, Semantic Kernel, and multi-agent orchestration platforms.
• Define AI solution patterns, technical standards, and governance frameworks.
• Develop scalable, secure, and responsible AI architectures aligned with enterprise policies.

Agentic AI Solution Development

• Design and implement autonomous AI agents capable of planning, reasoning, orchestrating tasks, and interacting with enterprise systems.
• Build intelligent workflows for incident management, document processing, knowledge management, customer support, and operational automation.
• Develop prompt engineering, context engineering, memory management, and orchestration strategies to optimize AI performance.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise applications, knowledge repositories, APIs, and business workflows.
• Design data architectures supporting vector databases, semantic search, enterprise knowledge graphs, and AI-ready data platforms.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to establish AI data pipelines and governance controls.
• Architect and deploy AI solutions on cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, observability, and AI operations (AIOps) capabilities.
• Optimize cloud resources for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Leadership & Capacity Building

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams across onshore and offshore locations.
• Mentor engineers and architects in Agentic AI patterns, cloud-native engineering, and modern software development practices.
• Establish communities of practice and standards for AI engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering and enterprise solution delivery.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud architecture and modern application development.
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI/ML and Generative AI solutions in large enterprises.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience delivering solutions using Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Technical Expertise

• Agentic AI architectures.
• Multi-agent systems.
• Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering.
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, MCP, or equivalent frameworks.
• NLP, sentiment analysis, classification, summarization, and knowledge management.
• AKS, Containers, Serverless Functions.

Software Development

• REST APIs and microservices.
• Full SDLC experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing Agentic AI solutions for Incident Management, Service Management, Grievance Management, Environmental & Social systems, or enterprise workflow automation.
• Experience with Responsible AI, AI Governance, and model monitoring.
• Microsoft Azure AI certifications and Scrum certifications.

Experience designing AI-enabled digital platforms for large international organizations, development institutions, or regulated industries.

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”