Applied AI Tech Lead

Amigo•San Francisco, CA

1d•$240,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

As an Applied AI Tech Lead at Amigo, you'll lead the technical delivery of customer deployments end to end. You'll set the architecture, break big ambiguous problems into work a team can own, commit the timelines, and hold the bar for what ships. It's a hands-on leadership role at the intersection of engineering, product, and the customer. Depending on your strengths, the role leans toward deep technical leadership, people leadership, or both. Some tech leads are the deepest technical authority on the team and take the hardest problems themselves. Others manage a handful of engineers and own how the team operates. Most do some of each. We work out the shape with you.

Requirements

Led significant engineering work end to end, as a tech lead, staff engineer, or engineering manager
Broken hard, ambiguous problems into work other engineers could own and deliver
Real experience with LLMs and agent systems, or the depth to get there fast
Judgment to make tradeoffs and the standing to say no when something doesn’t hold up
Lead well, whether through architecture, through people, or both
Low ego, direct, and hold yourself and your team to a high bar
Can work on site in New York City

Nice To Haves

Experience in a regulated or high-reliability domain (healthcare, finance, legal)
Experience shipping production AI or ML systems
Background in customer-facing or forward-deployed engineering
Experience growing engineers or running a small team

Responsibilities

Leading an AI deployment for a major healthcare customer, from first conversation to production
Turning an ambiguous customer need into a clear technical plan with owners and timelines
Setting the architecture and engineering standards the team builds within
Making the calls on tradeoffs: what to build now, what to reuse, and what to push back on
Growing the engineers around you and raising the bar of the whole team
Working directly with customers to keep scope, timelines, and quality honest