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Technical Lead (Applied AI)

X by 2$143K — $185K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in software engineering for enterprise applications and analytics
  • 1+ years in a technical leadership role (Tech Lead, Architect)
  • 1+ years in developing AI agents or models
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • (Optional) Master's Degree in AI/Machine Learning or Statistics
  • Proficiency in two or more AI engineering skills like agentic AI, machine learning, or data engineering

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and development of enterprise software solutions
  • Mentor engineers through reviews and provide technical guidance
  • Analyze and evaluate new tools and technologies for prototyping
  • Develop and maintain scalable applications using modern frameworks
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business problems into data-driven solutions
  • Design and train machine learning models tailored to business needs
  • Create orchestration patterns for agentic AI systems

Benefits

  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
  • Home office and wellness reimbursements
  • Professional self-development programs
  • Unlimited sick days and paid vacation
  • Company-sponsored social events and recognition programs
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Technical Lead who will lead the design and development of AI solutions within enterprise environments for our clients. You'll combine hands-on engineering with leadership, guiding architecture decisions, mentoring teams, and building solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Leadership & Architecture
    • Lead architecture, design, development, testing, and deployment of enterprise software solutions (applications, data, integration, AI agents, AI models)
    • Participate in strategy and roadmap discussions, architecture definition, and technology evaluations
    • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance
    • Quickly evaluate and adopt new tools, technologies, and platforms to build prototypes and proofs-of-concept
    • Drive adoption of AI solutions and collaborate with engineering teams, product leaders, and domain experts to deliver results
  • Software Engineering
    • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, production-grade enterprise applications using modern languages and frameworks (Python, Java, C#, JavaScript)
    • Define and enforce coding standards, best practices, and design patterns across the team
    • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-deployed services (AWS, Azure)
    • Integrate enterprise systems via APIs, event-driven architectures, and messaging platforms
    • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, technical debt, and system reliability issues
  • Data & Analytics
    • Work with large, complex datasets and ensure data quality and integrity
    • Analyze data to generate insights that inform both model development and broader solution strategy
    • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business problems into data-driven solutions
  • AI / Machine Learning Development
    • Design, develop, and train machine learning and deep learning models for healthcare and insurance use cases
    • Perform data modeling and feature engineering to support model development
    • Develop custom model metrics and approaches tailored to specific business problems
    • Ensure models are scalable, reliable, and integrated into production systems
  • Agentic AI Development
    • Design and develop LLM-powered workflows and agentic systems that help users complete complex tasks, retrieve information, reason over enterprise data, or interact with internal systems.
    • Integrate LLMs with tools, APIs, databases, documents, and enterprise platforms using patterns such as function calling, MCP, RAG, and structured tool use.
    • Architect orchestration patterns for planning, task decomposition, memory, context management, and human-in-the-loop review where appropriate.
    • Develop orchestration layers to manage agent planning, memory, task decomposition, and execution loops
    • Evaluate agentic systems for correctness, reliability, safety, observability, auditability, and harden them for production readiness.
    • Stay current with emerging AI frameworks and platforms, selecting tools pragmatically based on client needs.


Qualifications

  • Experience
    • 6+ years of experience in software engineering designing and developing enterprise applications, data/analytics solutions, and/or integration solutions
    • 1+ years of providing technical leadership as Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, or Architect
    • 1+ years in developing AI agents and/or AI model development and training
  • Education
    • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Development, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
    • (Optional) Master's Degree or Minor in AI/Machine Learning or Statistics
  • AI Engineering Skills (Two or More)
    • Agentic AI: building and integrating autonomous AI agents using LLM APIs and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, MCP)
    • Machine Learning & Deep Learning: developing and training models using standard ML/DL frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
    • Data Engineering & Feature Engineering: building data pipelines, performing feature engineering, and ensuring data quality across large, complex datasets
    • Context Engineering: Agentic SQL retrieval, MCP integration, agentic tool use, as well as vector databases & RAG techniques implementing retrieval-augmented generation patterns using vector stores (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, ChromaDB), .
    • LLM Prompt Engineering & Fine-Tuning: designing and evaluating effective prompts, system instructions, and fine-tuning strategies for production LLM applications
    • AI Evaluation & Production Readiness: defining evaluation methods, testing model behavior, monitoring performance, and addressing reliability, safety, explainability, and auditability concerns
  • What We're Looking For
    • You move fluidly between writing code and leading a room - equally comfortable in a design review as you are in a pull request
    • You have strong opinions about architecture and aren't afraid to share them, but you know when to listen and adapt
    • You take ownership seriously - on small teams, your decisions have real impact and you're energized by that, not intimidated
    • You're genuinely curious about AI, not just checking a box - you've experimented with agentic systems, LLMs, or ML tools on your own terms
    • You communicate clearly with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders, and can translate complexity without dumbing it down


Location

  • Metro Detroit or North Carolina Research Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill)
  • Hybrid: flexibility to work remotely, but not fully remote
  • Travel to X by 2 offices (Farmington Hills, MI) and client sites (within US) is required when requested


Work Environment and Culture

  • Work alongside smart, collaborative people who continually challenge and invest in each other
  • Partner with seasoned architects to solve hard problems and challenge assumptions
  • Small teams mean real ownership, with growth and responsibilities driven purely by individual performance
  • Everyone has a voice and is encouraged to shape the company by sharing their interests, ideas, and feedback


Compensation & Benefits

  • Base salary $143K-$185K, depending on experience, plus profit sharing
  • Annual raises and promotions based on performance
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance coverage, plus voluntary benefits and HSA with employer contribution
  • Home Office Reimbursement, Health and Wellness Reimbursement, and Professional Dress Allowance
  • Professional Self-Development Program
  • Paid vacation, unlimited sick days (as needed), and holidays
  • Company-sponsored social events and an employee recognition rewards program


Sound Like You?

We're not looking for someone who has done everything - we're looking for someone who is driven to. If you thrive in environments where you can move fast, go deep, and make a real difference for clients solving complex problems in healthcare and insurance, we'd love to hear from you.

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