Remote AI Engineering Lead — Backend & AI Apps

OpenTalent; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision care

Savings plan options

Paid time off

Job summary

OpenTalent is seeking an Engineering Lead for AI Email Applications to own the engineering layer turning AI into a reliable product. You will shape architecture across backend services, APIs, and client apps while leading a small team of senior engineers in a hands-on leadership role.

This position is 100% Remote. You will collaborate with ML leadership to translate model capabilities into shippable experiences, balancing latency, reliability, and user experience.

Qualifications

• AI experience required.
• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems.
• Experience building AI-powered products or systems that integrate with ML/LLM capabilities.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information.
• Comfortable across backend and client platforms, with deep expertise in at least one.

Responsibilities

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows, including state, orchestration, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
• Build the APIs and abstractions that connect AI systems to real-world product experiences.
• Lead a small senior engineering team and raise the technical bar through design reviews and mentorship.
• Make high-impact trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and UX.
• Establish strong production foundations: observability, monitoring, testing, and operations.
• Partner with ML leadership to turn model capabilities into robust product experiences.
• Move quickly while keeping the architecture simple and scalable.

Skills

AI experience

Team leadership

Backend systems

ML/LLM integration

Technical judgment

Cross-platform

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

OpenTalent is seeking an Engineering Lead for AI Email Applications to own the engineering layer turning AI into a reliable product. You will shape architecture across backend services, APIs, and client apps while leading a small team of senior engineers in a hands-on leadership role.

This position is 100% Remote. You will collaborate with ML leadership to translate model capabilities into shippable experiences, balancing latency, reliability, and user experience.