Lead Applied AI Engineer - Build Production AI Agents

LangChain; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental coverage

Flexible vacation

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Meals on in-office days (US)

Job summary

LangChain in New York, NY, is seeking a Lead Applied AI Engineer to lead end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, and drive agent-driven automation. You will ship complex agentic workflows and help set technical direction for the team.

You will work onsite in NYC, collaborating with customers and internal teams to translate requirements into robust AI solutions and ensure high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience with production LLM applications.
• Experience leading technical projects end to end and mentoring engineers.
• Hands-on experience implementing evaluation and monitoring systems for agents.
• Deep understanding of AI system components: prompting, retrieval, orchestration, inference APIs, and model selection.
• Strong coding skills in Python or TypeScript.
• Excellent communicator who can simplify complex technical ideas.
• Based in or willing to relocate to New York, NY.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy end-to-end AI workflows and agents that solve real problems across multiple business domains.
• Develop and iterate on agent architectures, evaluation pipelines, and performance frameworks to ensure reliability and measurable outcomes.
• Set the technical bar for the team on code quality, testing, documentation, and project scoping.
• Mentor engineers on the team through code review and design discussions.
• Work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to translate requirements into technical plans.
• Identify gaps in internal tooling, frameworks, and processes and drive enhancements.
• Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate cross-functionally embedding with Marketing, GTM, Recruiting, or Product to identify opportunities for agent-driven automation.
• Contribute to the LangChain and LangGraph ecosystem, including open View Posting source components, documentation, and shared tools.

Skills

LLM apps

Technical leadership

Monitoring systems

Python

TypeScript

Communication

Startup mindset

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Job description

LangChain in New York, NY, is seeking a Lead Applied AI Engineer to lead end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, and drive agent-driven automation. You will ship complex agentic workflows and help set technical direction for the team.

You will work onsite in NYC, collaborating with customers and internal teams to translate requirements into robust AI solutions and ensure high-quality outcomes.