Lead AI Engineer

Mirakl; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mirakl is seeking an AI Technical Lead for Boston to head AI strategy within a domain such as Sales, GTM, Marketing, or Finance. You will combine engineering excellence with business understanding to drive AI adoption, define roadmaps, and deliver measurable outcomes.

This permanent CDI role is based in our Boston office, with 4 days on-site per week, offering leadership across AI initiatives and collaboration with product and business leaders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Software Engineering, ML Engineering, or Applied AI.
• Strong experience with LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, evaluation, and production systems.
• Ability to influence Product and Business decisions.
• Proven leadership on complex cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own AI Strategy for Your Domain.
• Lead AI System Development and architecture decisions.
• Drive Adoption & Measure business impact of AI initiatives.
• Establish Technical Excellence with guardrails, observability, and testing.
• Grow AI Capability by mentoring engineers and sharing reusable components.

Skills

years of experience

LLMs-RAG-AI Agents

influence product decisions

lead cross-functional initiatives

Tools

Python

SQL

OpenAI

Anthropic

Gemini

Mistral

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

MCP

Vector Databases

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Lead the design, development, and adoption of AI systems within a strategic business domain. You will be part of the AI team, working inside one of our division (Marketing or finance for example) to lead their AI transformation.

You will combine deep AI engineering expertise with product and business understanding to identify high-impact opportunities, define roadmaps, and deliver measurable outcomes.

As the AI technical lead for your domain, you will drive architecture decisions, engineering excellence, and AI adoption across teams and stakeholders. Examples of domains include: Sales, GTM and Marketing or Finance & Legal

This is a permanent position (CDI) based in our Boston office, with 4 days on-site per week.

What You'll Do

1. Own AI Strategy for Your Domain
   • Define the AI vision and roadmap for your domain
   • Identify high-value opportunities with Product Managers and business leaders
2. Lead AI System Development
   • Design and build production-grade AI systems
   • Drive architecture decisions
   • Ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability
3. Drive Adoption & Business Impact
   • Work closely with end users
   • Measure adoption and outcomes
   • Accelerate AI transformation across your domain
4. Establish Technical Excellence
   • Promote best practices for evaluation, testing, guardrails, and observability
   • Review designs and mentor engineers
   • Raise the quality bar across initiatives
5. Grow AI Capability
   • Mentor AI Engineers and Agent Builders
   • Share knowledge and reusable components
   • Build AI expertise within your organization

Success Metrics

• Business impact delivered by AI initiatives
• Adoption within the domain
• Technical quality and reliability
• Team capability growth

Profile

• 7+ years in Software Engineering, ML Engineering, or Applied AI
• Strong experience with LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, evaluation, and production systems
• Ability to influence Product and Business decisions
• Proven leadership on complex cross-functional initiatives

Tech Stack

• Languages: Python and SQL
• AI Stack: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral and Open-source models
• Agentic & Retrieval: LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP and Vector Databases
• Infrastructure: AWS or GCP, Docker and Kubernetes 7+ years in Software Engineering, ML Engineering, or Applied AI, Strong experience with LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, evaluation, and production systems, Ability to influence Product and Business decisions, Proven leadership on complex cross-functional initiatives