Head of AI & Agentic Engineering

Artefact North America; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Artefact North America is seeking a senior AI/ML leader to guide the design and delivery of production-grade AI systems in NYC. You will drive architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with clients on pre-sales and solution design.

You’ll lead a team across classical ML, LLM apps, and agentic tooling, shaping GenAI strategy while delivering measurable client value and business impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering and AI background.
• 2–3 years on LLM architecture, agentic design, and harness & context engineering.
• Strong expertise in generative AI/LLM engineering and cloud-native software architecture.

Responsibilities

• AI & ML Solution Architecture: design and optimize production AI systems including LLM apps and agentic components.
• Context engineering: prompt design, RAG, vector stores, memory management.
• Harness engineering: build robust agent harnesses, orchestration, guardrails, observability.
• Fine-tuning pipelines: data curation, supervised fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment.
• Team leadership: manage and mentor AI & ML engineers; set standards.
• Pre-sales: support proposals, demos, and solution scoping with clients.

Job description

Artefact North America is seeking a senior AI/ML leader to guide the design and delivery of production-grade AI systems in NYC. You will drive architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with clients on pre-sales and solution design.

You’ll lead a team across classical ML, LLM apps, and agentic tooling, shaping GenAI strategy while delivering measurable client value and business impact.