Description
We are seeking a Lead AI Engineer to own the design and delivery of the NBA platform's agentic AI capabilities. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will be a significant individual contributor building production AI systems every sprint. You will also lead a small team of engineers and contractors focused on bringing AI-powered workflows and intelligent analysis into the platform's user-facing experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Agentic AI delivery: design, build, and own AI agent workflows that surface intelligent analysis, recommendations, and automation across the NBA platform's user interfaces and internal tooling
- Hands-on development: actively write and ship production code alongside your team
- AI workflow design: architect multi-step agentic pipelines that integrate with the platform's data layer, decisioning outputs, and activation channels to deliver meaningful AI-driven experiences
- LLM integration: own the integration of large language models (Claude, GPT, or equivalents) into platform workflows
- User-facing AI experiences: partner with frontend and product teams to bring AI-powered analysis and recommendations into the Command and Control UI and other operator-facing surfaces
- Evaluation and reliability: build evaluation frameworks to measure AI output quality and ensure agentic workflows are reliable, auditable, and safe in a regulated healthcare environment
- Contractor management: manage AI engineering contractors within your pod
- AI productivity tooling: model best practices for AI-assisted development across the broader engineering organization
Requirements:
- 6+ years of software or ML engineering experience with at least 1-2 years focused on LLM integration, agentic AI, or AI product engineering
- Hands-on experience building production agentic systems
- Experience with RAG patterns and vector search
- Strong Python engineering skills
- Experience integrating LLM APIs into real applications
- Proven ability to lead a small team or pod through delivery and manage contractor resources
- Strong judgment on when AI is the right tool and when it is not
- Clear communicator
- Deep fluency with AI productivity tools
Benefits:
- Competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Time off, including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Life insurance
Pay Range:
$129,300 - $177,800 per year