Senior AI Strategy & Prototyping Lead

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 203,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Retirement Savings Plan with an Emplyr

Professional Development Opportunities

Time Off

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Employee Assistance Program

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Employee Discount Program

Job summary

Elite Technology is seeking an AI-fluent individual contributor who shapes how AI is identified, evaluated, and applied across enterprise functions and product. You will partner with leaders and delivery teams to guide ideation around AI and agentic automation use cases, moving from opportunity framing to practical implementation paths.

The role blends hands-on technical depth with strategic judgment, driving exploration, experimentation, and rapid prototyping of emerging AI technologies while

Qualifications

• 9+ years strong experience in AI/ML, software engineering, data platforms, solution architecture, or related technical roles, with demonstrated hands-on work in modern AI technologies
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI, including large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval patterns, orchestration frameworks, and AI-enabled workflow automation
• Demonstrated ability to explore new technologies quickly, build prototypes, and turn ambiguous ideas into practical recommendations and next steps
• Experience guiding cross-functional teams through technical discovery, use case shaping, experimentation, and early implementation planning
• Strong understanding of emerging AI patterns such as copilots, multi-step orchestration, agentic workflows, evaluation approaches, and human-in-the-loop design
• Ability to travel up to 10–25% as business needs require
• Role requires sedentary desk/computer work
• Must be legally authorized to work in United States; Elite does not provide employment sponsorship for this position
• Competitive Compensation Package ($202,500-$225,000 base salary + variable component)

Responsibilities

• Guide business, product, and technology teams through ideation for AI and agentic automation opportunities, helping frame use cases, value hypotheses, feasibility, and implementation approaches
• Drive exploration of emerging AI technologies, tools, and patterns to assess their applicability across enterprise and product scenarios
• Lead experimentation and rapid prototyping to validate new ideas, reduce uncertainty, and accelerate learning before broader investment or delivery
• Develop proof-of-concepts and reference implementations that demonstrate practical approaches for AI-enabled workflows, copilots, and agentic automation
• Influence enterprise and product AI strategy by surfacing insights from experimentation, identifying patterns, and recommending high-value opportunities and technology directions
• Partner with product, engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate promising ideas into scalable implementation plans and adoption paths
• Help define practical standards, reusable patterns, and guardrails for responsible AI and agentic solution design
• Act as a trusted internal advisor on AI trends, tradeoffs, and emerging capabilities, bringing a pragmatic perspective grounded in hands-on experience
• Build organizational confidence and fluency in AI by helping teams understand what is possible, what is practical, and how to move forward effectively
• Reduce fragmentation by standardizing AI tools and approaches across teams while enabling innovation where it drives value
• Contribute thought leadership that strengthens Elite’s long-term AI vision while balancing innovation, practicality, security, and business value
• Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives.

Skills

AI/ML

Software Engineering

Data Platforms

Solution Architecture

Generative AI

LLMs

Prompt Engineering

Orchestration Frameworks

AI-enabled Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Elite Technology is seeking an AI-fluent individual contributor who shapes how AI is identified, evaluated, and applied across enterprise functions and product. You will partner with leaders and delivery teams to guide ideation around AI and agentic automation use cases, moving from opportunity framing to practical implementation paths.

The role blends hands-on technical depth with strategic judgment, driving exploration, experimentation, and rapid prototyping of emerging AI technologies while