Lead Software Engineer, AI & Emerging Tech

Urban Ridge Supplies is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive enterprise AI platform enablement and develop next-generation AI-powered solutions. The role involves designing and deploying Gen AI platforms, implementing controls and guardrails, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, mentoring engineers, and supporting AI products across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and actively contribute to enable upcoming AI features and products for the organization, onboarding users/teams and use cases onto enterprise AI platforms (e.g. OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, LLM gateways, and agentic frameworks)
• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders — Information Security, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and business teams — to review, negotiate, and agree on platform controls and guardrails for implementation
• Design, build, and maintain scalable Gen AI platform capabilities, including LLM pipelines, agentic workflows, MCP integrations, and Graph/RAG architectures, using clean, maintainable Python and AWS-native tooling
• Implement cloud-native solutions using AWS services such as EKS, Lambda, Fargate, Glue, and Athena
• Optimize performance of AI products, Drive continuous learning and experimentation with cutting-edge Gen AI methods, frameworks, APIs, and toolchains
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) on Gen AI technologies and help shape the organization's AI roadmap
• Own end-to-end delivery of platform enablement initiatives; manage timelines, deliverables, and milestones using Agile practices (Scrum/Kanban)
• Advice, maintain, monitor and support AI platform and product users