Air
Lead AI Engineer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Full-time
No sponsorshipDetected 3 days ago
PythonAlgorithmsGitAWSCloud PlatformsMachine LearningData ScienceLLMsAgentic AICybersecurityProduct ManagementAgileManual TestingLeadershipMentoring
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About the role
- Over the past year, we have seen the rapid adoption of our agent, Ace.
- We expect Ace to be handling much more complex tasks and workflows end-to-end and/or in cooperation with a human user as time goes on.
- The team is striving to make Ace an even more effective agent, focusing on planning, reliable execution over longer time horizon tasks, scaled tool use, Ace Skills, memory, and inter-agent coordination.
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Minimum 3 years of experience building and deploying ML or LLM-powered systems in production environments
Skills
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
- Minimum 2 years of experience leading or mentoring engineering teams in production environments
- Advanced software skills in Python
- Experience with common LLM algorithms and implementations
- Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure
- A strong desire to learn and investigate new technologies
- Familiarity with Git source control management
- Ability to work collaboratively with little supervision
- A burning desire to work in a challenging, fast-paced tech environment
- Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
- Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
- Experience with Claude Code and GenAI coding best practices.
Benefits
- Experience leading agentic system development from ideation through production, including technical design, architecture decisions, and day-to-day leadership of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers
Company info
- Company Description
- Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness.
- Our mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved.
- Today, a dangerous Readiness Gap exists between what the front line needs and what is delivered.
- Our AI-native platform, Air Enterprise Readiness, aligns development, production, delivery, and sustainment into one coordinated execution system for government agencies and industrial suppliers.
- By revealing true capacity, exposing real constraints, coordinating resources, and executing at the speed of operational demands, the front line gets what it needs to succeed.
- We are seeking an experienced Lead AI Engineer to lead our Agentic AI team as we scale our agentic offerings across all levels of the US government.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
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