Lead Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer
About The Position
As a Lead Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Ciklum is looking for a Lead Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer to join our team full-time in the US. We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
Requirements
- 8+ years engineering, 3+ managing engineers who ship AI/ML or LLM systems in production
- Has managed blended teams (contractors + employees) and held a quality bar across them
- Hands-on enough to review agent architectures, prompts, and eval suites credibly
- Operates in a flat, fast structure — player-coach comfortable, empire-averse
Nice To Haves
- Healthcare or regulated-industry delivery; experience scaling a team from <10 to 30+
Responsibilities
- Manage engineers across the central platform team and delivery pods (mix of contractors and internal engineers)
- Own engineering standards: code and agent quality, review practices, definition of done, production readiness
- Own contractor performance and the conversion pipeline with the sourcing partner
- Partner with the platform lead on the paved path — templates, pipeline, evals — and make every pod use it
- Unblock delivery daily; keep pods shipping without becoming a gatekeeper
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Basic Life Insurance
- Short and Long-term disability insurance
- Udemy access
- Language courses
- Company-paid certifications
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
