Lead AI Engineer

Granite Telecommunications delivers communications and technology solutions to businesses and government agencies. The company is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to identify complex business problems and design, build, and deploy scalable AI/ML systems, including agentic AI, RAG pipelines, LLM function-calling solutions, and reinforcement learning applications. The role also leads optimization, enterprise integration, security compliance, and mentorship of team members.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement AI solutions leveraging fine-tuned Large Language Models (e.g., OpenAI models, LLaMA, Mistral)
• Design, develop, and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using advanced vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone, Milvus)
• Build and enhance agentic AI systems utilizing frameworks like LangChain, AutoGPT, or similar automation frameworks
• Deploy scalable ColBERTv2 architectures for semantic retrieval and classification
• Create robust pre-processing and post-processing pipelines to enhance model performance, accuracy, and interpretability
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, business stakeholders, data scientists, and software engineers
• Implement best practices in model distillation, quantization, and optimization for deployment in production environments
• Ensure compliance with enterprise-grade security, privacy standards, and data governance practices
• Provide leadership and mentorship to team members, supporting their technical development and career growth through coaching, training, and performance feedback
• Drive timely and successful completion of AI/ML projects by setting clear milestones, tracking progress, removing blockers, and aligning resources