Lead AI Product Owner & SME Engineer

Univedge Consulting LLC; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

UnivEdge Consulting is seeking an experienced E2E AI SME Engineer-cum-Product Owner to own the strategy, design, development, deployment, and ongoing improvement of enterprise AI products. You will translate business needs into a prioritized roadmap and build production-grade solutions.

The ideal candidate blends deep ML expertise with strong product leadership, delivering measurable adoption and business value from discovery through operations, while partnering across business, data, security,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI or related field.
• Proven end-to-end enterprise AI product delivery experience.
• Hands-on with LLMs, RAG, and agentic AI.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end AI product lifecycle from discovery to adoption.
• Collaborate with business, data, engineering, security, legal, and ops teams.
• Prioritize features based on value, risk, and alignment; lead sprint planning.
• Design and build production-grade AI apps using Python, APIs and cloud services.
• Develop LLM, RAG, agentic AI, fine-tuning and tool-calling solutions.
• Establish architectures, reusable components, and coding standards.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLMs

RAG

Prompt engineering

Agile

Stakeholder leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI or related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Hugging Face

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

UnivEdge Consulting is seeking an experienced E2E AI SME Engineer-cum-Product Owner to own the strategy, design, development, deployment, and ongoing improvement of enterprise AI products. You will translate business needs into a prioritized roadmap and build production-grade solutions.

The ideal candidate blends deep ML expertise with strong product leadership, delivering measurable adoption and business value from discovery through operations, while partnering across business, data, security,