Founding AI Engineer - Build Production GenAI & Agents

TheDriveGroup; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

TheDriveGroup in Arlington, VA is hiring the first dedicated US AI Engineering hire to work directly with the Co-Founder and senior Product leadership, shaping the direction of the company’s AI capability as the US team grows.

You will design, build and productionize Generative AI and agentic AI features, integrate them into the existing platform, and help establish a US-based team of about five engineers, with on-site work strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software/AI engineering roles.
• Experience deploying AI/ML in production.
• Hands-on with Generative AI or agentic AI.
• Experience integrating AI into software products.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and productionise AI systems, GenAI and agentic AI capabilities
• Develop LLM-powered features and AI agents that solve complex, real-world intelligence problems
• Integrate new AI capabilities into an established enterprise software platform
• Take ideas from early prototype through to scalable, reliable production systems
• Work across AI architecture, orchestration, evaluation, monitoring and performance
• Build and deploy cloud-based AI services across AWS/GCP environments
• Work with large volumes of complex structured and unstructured information
• Partner closely with Product, Software Engineering and Data Science teams
• Work directly with the Co-Founder and Head of Product on the direction of the AI capability
• Help establish the foundations for a US AI Engineering team expected to grow to around five people

Skills

Software Engineering

AI Engineering

Machine Learning

Production Systems

Generative AI

Autonomy

Tools

AWS

GCP

LLMs

NLP frameworks

Job description

TheDriveGroup in Arlington, VA is hiring the first dedicated US AI Engineering hire to work directly with the Co-Founder and senior Product leadership, shaping the direction of the company’s AI capability as the US team grows.

You will design, build and productionize Generative AI and agentic AI features, integrate them into the existing platform, and help establish a US-based team of about five engineers, with on-site work strongly preferred.