Lead AI Engineer

Lead AI Engineer

Team: Technology + Engineering

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Full Stack Engineer to join our dynamic team. This project lead role will require a mix of creative technology, R&D, collaboration, and hands-on development work to deliver AI-powered tools and experiences for our clients. You will collaborate with cross-functional contributors, including creative directors, UI designers, content designers, and producers. You will also play a pivotal role in representing Addition at a project level to our clients, where you will represent our work and team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Leadership: Lead the project design and development of AI Systems to power internal workflows and tools, content at scale, and digital or physical experiences. 
• Product Management: Oversee technical architecture, scoping, coding, code reviews, integration, and communication with internal and client technology stakeholders.

Coding: Develop rapid prototypes to facilitate team alignment, explore what’s possible, and contribute meaningful production code to projects to ensure their success. 

• Productization: Help facilitate a repository of reusable code snippets, techniques, and libraries that can be applied to streamline the development of future projects and enable technology team members to operate more effectively.
• Quality and Safety: Work with internal and external QA and AI safety teams to ensure that products are delivered at the highest level of quality and AI safety.   

Qualifications:

• Experience: 
• 3+ years of experience incorporating foundation models such as LLMs and Image Generation models into complex, multi-function AI Systems.
• 5+ years leading creative technology projects with cross-functional teams. 
• 10+ years of experience developing software systems in a professional setting.
• A BS or MS in computer science or a similar field is preferred. 
  
• Technical Skills: 
• Experience architecting and developing AI Systems that employ an ensemble approach to combine multiple AI models 
• Some expertise with Generative AI models such as LLMs and image and/or video-based Diffusion Models
• Experience using AI tools to assist in software development
• Fluency in front-end development techniques in  React.js and related libraries such as NEXT.js
• Fluency in back-end development techniques in Python, as well as database technologies and cloud computing platforms
• Dev ops experience with database technologies and cloud computing platforms
  
• Creative Skills: 
• Understanding of design thinking, storytelling, and a passion for innovative, interactive experiences.
  
• Communication: 
• Excellent communicator, adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.