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Lead AI Engineer - Alpharetta GA

VetJobs
Alpharetta, GA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/17/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/16/2026
Job Description

ATTENTION MILITARY AFFILIATED JOB SEEKERS - Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles. The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers. If you have the required skill set, education requirements, and experience, please click the submit button and follow the next steps.

As Our Lead AI Engineer, You Will Be The Driving Force Behind Our Technical Vision And Execution. Your Core Responsibilities Include:

Implement Sophisticated AI Agents: Design, build, and deploy complex AI agents using LangChain and LangGraph. You will own the core logic that automates intricate decision-making within the claims lifecycle.

Master Prompt & Context Engineering: Design, test, and refine complex prompts and contextual data frameworks to ensure our AI agents perform with maximum accuracy, efficiency, and reliability.

Lead AI Research & Innovation: Stay at the bleeding edge of AI. You’ll be responsible for identifying, prototyping, and integrating the latest foundational models, RAG techniques, and agentic frameworks to solve unique business challenges.

Build for Production Scale on GCP: Engineer and operate our AI systems in a scalable, reliable production environment on Google Cloud Platform. Your work will directly impact millions of users.

Champion MLOps for Agentic Systems: Establish and lead best practices for the reliability, versioning, monitoring, and observability of our AI agents, using tools like Langfuse to ensure production-grade performance.

Collaborate to Deliver Impact: Partner closely with product leaders, data scientists, and other engineers to translate business needs into technical reality, ensuring our AI solutions are both innovative and effective.

Champion modern software development practices by actively using AI code-assist tools (e.g., Gemini code assists, Github Copilot, Claude code) to accelerate development cycles, generate documentation, improve code quality, testing, and monitoring & observability practices

Build, manage, and mentor a cross-functional team of software, quality, and reliability engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Define and report on key engineering metrics (SLA, SLO, SLI) and ensure compliance with security, quality, and financial operations (DevSecOps, FinOps) best practices.

Collaborate with product managers, architects, SREs and business partners to define technical strategy, create software roadmaps, and make key architectural and design decisions.

Lead troubleshooting efforts to resolve production and customer issues, demonstrating deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills.

Participate and lead agile team activities, including Sprint Planning and Retrospectives, to ensure efficient and predictable delivery

Lead with a data/metrics driven mindset with a extreme focus towards optimizing and creating efficient solutions

Drive up-to-date technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books

Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate

Auto req ID

469864BR

Minimum Education Required

Bachelors

Job_Category

IT

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

What You'll Bring (Experience & Technical Stack)

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

7 years in software engineering, with a strong track record of technical leadership and shipping complex, scalable systems.

2 years in a dedicated AI/ML role, with hands-on experience in model integration, MLOps, and applying AI to solve business problems.

1 years of direct experience architecting and building solutions with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar agentic AI frameworks.

2 years of in-depth experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically its AI/ML services (Vertex AI, etc.).

3 years of proven experience leveraging Kubernetes workloads.

Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Java and working knowledge of a modern front-end framework (Angular, React, or Vue) to collaborate effectively with UI teams.

Hands-on experience with LLM observability tools like Langfuse for monitoring and debugging agentic workflows

Cloud-Native Proficiency:

Cloud Platforms: Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure).

Containerization: Mastery of Docker for containerizing applications and Kubernetes for orchestration.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to manage infrastructure programmatically.

CI/CD Tools: Experience with CI/CD tools such as Github Actions, Argo CD, Jenkins

Database Knowledge: Strong experience with both SQL (e.g., Spanned DB, Alloy DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB and Firestore) databases.

Cloud-Native Proficiency:

Cloud Platforms: Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure).

Containerization: Mastery of Docker for containerizing applications and Kubernetes for orchestration.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to manage infrastructure programmatically.

CI/CD Tools: Experience with CI/CD tools such as Github Actions, Argo CD, Jenkins

Database Knowledge: Strong experience with both SQL (e.g., Spanned DB, Alloy DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB and Firestore) databases.

What could set you apart

Strong expertise in Generative AI (GenAI), including hands-on experience with models like Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, or Llama.

You are adept at leveraging modern development tools, including AI-powered code assistants (like GitHub Copilot), to accelerate the development lifecycle and rapidly ship high-quality features

Experience creating and deploying AI agents to production environments.

You have a history of tackling ambiguous, complex technical challenges and architecting elegant, effective solutions.

You are passionate about the potential of AI, but you are grounded in the practical realities of building and shipping reliable, production-ready software.

You thrive in a team-oriented environment, capable of mentoring other engineers and clearly communicating complex technical ideas to any audience.

You are motivated by the opportunity to apply cutting-edge technology to solve meaningful, real-world problems at a massive scale.

City*

Alpharetta

State*

Georgia

Job Code

Operations_ Specialist

Affiliate Sponsor

Equifax

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