Senior AI Delivery Lead — Remote

EBSCO Information Services, Inc.; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 197,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Retirement Savings Plan

Paid Time Off

Job summary

EBSCO Information Services is building a forward-deployed AI delivery capability within its Data & AI organization. You will lead a pod of AI Engineers, set the delivery strategy, and partner with Product, Security, Customer Service, and Operations to ship AI that improves speed, quality, and cost.

This player-coach role emphasizes hands-on leadership and building reusable patterns, guardrails, and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software, product, or AI delivery including AI-powered production
• Proven ownership of production AI/ML or generative AI systems end-to-end
• Hands-on fluency with agentic AI patterns and workflows
• Strong collaboration with sponsors, product, security, and ops

Responsibilities

• Lead the Forward-Deployed Engineering pod and set the delivery roadmap.
• Score inbound demand, time-box engagements, ensure clean hand-offs.
• Set technical direction for production agentic systems and guardrails.
• Stand up evaluation harness, observability, and reusable patterns.
• Own cost-to-serve: model selection, LLM migrations, prompt caching.
• Partner with business sponsors to translate use cases into shipped systems.
• Collaborate with strategic vendors while protecting IP and scale.

Skills

AI delivery leadership

Team leadership

Cross-functional communication

Cloud architecture

LLM orchestration

RAG / vector search

Stakeholder management

Hands-on development

Tools

AWS

Job description

EBSCO Information Services is building a forward-deployed AI delivery capability within its Data & AI organization. You will lead a pod of AI Engineers, set the delivery strategy, and partner with Product, Security, Customer Service, and Operations to ship AI that improves speed, quality, and cost.

This player-coach role emphasizes hands-on leadership and building reusable patterns, guardrails, and observability.