Lead AI Engineer

IXOPAY • ,

3d • $180,000 - $195,000

About The Position

IXOPAY is seeking a Lead AI Developer to define and build the AI capabilities that will shape the future of the company. This is a greenfield leadership role with broad technical ownership, responsible for leading the design and delivery of AI-powered products and embedding AI across the engineering organization. The role involves establishing the AI architecture, guiding technical direction, and contributing to team growth, all while working closely with Product and Engineering teams to develop next-generation AI-driven payment technology.

Requirements

• Extensive software engineering experience, with significant hands-on experience building production AI, machine learning, or agentic AI systems.
• Proven experience deploying LLM-powered applications used by real customers at production scale.
• Strong Python development skills with a focus on clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for AI systems, including quality measurement, regression testing, and model validation.
• Experience building AI agents using modern frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector search, prompt engineering, and agent orchestration.
• Experience implementing AI safety practices, including guardrails, prompt injection protection, and human oversight.
• Familiarity with cloud AI platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, or Google Vertex AI.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead technical direction across cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in payments, FinTech, or other regulated industries.
• Experience scaling AI platforms or engineering teams in a fast-growing environment.
• Familiarity with LLM observability tools such as LangSmith, LangFuse, or Arize.
• Experience with fine-tuning strategies and understanding when they provide value over retrieval-based approaches.
• Contributions to open-source AI or machine learning projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production-ready AI agents and multi-agent systems.
• Define the architecture for AI-powered products, including retrieval, memory, orchestration, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure quality, reliability, safety, latency, and overall model performance.
• Implement AI guardrails, observability, and monitoring to ensure secure and responsible AI deployments.
• Build intelligent workflows that automate onboarding, payment optimization, fraud detection, and operational decision-making.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to identify high-impact AI opportunities across the platform.
• Lead AI delivery from concept through production, balancing innovation, quality, scalability, and cost.
• Mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and help grow IXOPAY's AI capability.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Professional growth and leadership opportunities
• A collaborative, international engineering culture
• The opportunity to build an AI function from the ground up
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Employer-paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Unlimited Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Plan with Employer Match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed