Lead AI Engineer & Data Platform Builder - Equity

Avacend Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Resolvd AI, based in New York, is seeking a hands-on Lead AI Engineer to build production-grade AI systems, scalable data pipelines, and intelligent tools. The role combines software and data engineering with applied AI in a distributed architecture.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with production LLMs, AI agents, and data platforms, and thrives in a startup/early-stage environment. Hybrid NYC with on-site as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in application development and distributed systems architecture.
• 3+ years of production data engineering building ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics platforms.
• Expert-level proficiency in Apache Spark, PySpark, and SQL.
• Strong Python programming skills and production applications experience.
• Extensive experience with dimensional data modeling and large-scale data processing.
• Proven experience building and deploying production LLM-powered applications, RAG systems, or AI agents.
• Strong understanding of modern data architectures and medallion data structures.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines and dimensional data models.
• Transform raw transactional, eCommerce, and observability data into analytics-ready datasets.
• Build aggregation layers and summarized datasets to support natural-language querying and executive reporting.
• Develop unified dashboards integrating system performance metrics, latency, error rates, conversion rates, and renewal metrics.
• Establish engineering performance metrics covering delivery velocity, security posture, and incident trends.
• Build and deploy AI agents for anomaly detection, incident triage, and root-cause analysis.
• Develop LLM-powered productivity tools, including code search assistants and runbook copilots using RAG and prompt engineering.
• Optimize data processing workflows using Spark, PySpark, SQL, and Python.
• Build internal tools, chatbots, and operational applications to improve engineering productivity.
• Collaborate with SRE, Security, Architecture, and cross-functional teams to identify automation opportunities.
• Promote AI adoption and continuously improve engineering workflows through intelligent automation.

Skills

LLM-powered apps

AI agents

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modeling

Distributed systems

Cloud/data ops

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IT/Data Eng or related field

Master's degree preferred (CS/AI/Data Science)

Equivalent practical experience may be considered

Tools

Apache Spark

PySpark

Python

SQL

Job description

Resolvd AI, based in New York, is seeking a hands-on Lead AI Engineer to build production-grade AI systems, scalable data pipelines, and intelligent tools. The role combines software and data engineering with applied AI in a distributed architecture.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with production LLMs, AI agents, and data platforms, and thrives in a startup/early-stage environment. Hybrid NYC with on-site as needed.