Gen AI - Engineering Lead

EXL; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

EXL is seeking a Senior Generative AI Engineer Lead to drive the design, development, and deployment of enterprise-grade GenAI solutions across AWS, GCP, and Snowflake ecosystems. You will translate business needs into AI-powered prototypes and scalable, production-ready systems.

You will establish engineering practices around prompt governance, model guardrails, benchmarking, and performance optimization, while leading a cross-functional team through the full GenAI lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering GenAI solutions at scale.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of enterprise AI governance and guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end GenAI initiatives from concept to production.
• Translate business requirements into AI-powered prototypes.
• Establish governance, benchmarks, and performance optimizations.

Skills

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Orchestration frameworks

Cloud-native AI

Model evaluation

Leadership

Tools

AWS

GCP

Snowflake

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Generative AI Engineer Lead to drive the design, development, and deployment of enterprise-grade Generative AI solutions. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, AI orchestration frameworks, cloud-native AI architectures, and model evaluation methodologies. This role will lead the end-to-end lifecycle of GenAI initiatives, from translating business requirements into AI-powered prototypes to delivering scalable, production-ready solutions across AWS, GCP, and Snowflake ecosystems. The candidate will also establish engineering best practices around prompt governance, model guardrails, benchmarking, and performance optimization.