Lead AI Engineer

The New Network is hiring a Lead AI Engineer to help build and scale an AI-powered platform used to transform complex workflows. This hands-on development role focuses on creating innovative solutions leveraging generative AI and collaborating with various teams to drive technical direction and system scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain production-ready AI systems, applied AI/ML pipelines, and agentic workflows
• Architect and optimize robust document ingestion pipelines to serve as the knowledge foundation of the platform
• Evaluate, test, and integrate frontier LLMs, agent frameworks, and modern AI tooling in collaboration with technical leaders
• Participate in and lead architectural discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and technical estimations
• Champion coding standards, automated testing, CI/CD practices, and AI-first development workflows to improve engineering velocity
• Collaborate closely with Product, Data, Design, and QA teams to translate business requirements and UI/UX designs into scalable backend capabilities
• Provide hands-on mentorship, guidance, and knowledge sharing to junior and intermediate engineers as an individual contributor