Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Parallel Partners is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to own the design, development, and delivery of production AI systems. This role involves leading a global engineering team to build scalable AI systems that impact real users and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of production AI systems powering insurance workflow automation
• Architect AI orchestration layers connecting LLMs, backend services, and business workflows
• Own end-to-end AI system design, including inference pipelines, routing, caching, and fallback strategies
• Drive engineering decisions around latency, reliability, cost, and scalability of AI services
• Lead implementation of Observability Systems (logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting)
• Review and guide backend AI implementation across engineering teams
• Collaborate with product, backend, DevOps, and operations teams to ship end-to-end AI features
• Debug complex production issues across distributed AI systems and lead root-cause analysis
• Define engineering standards and best practices for AI system development
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical execution quality across teams

Skills

• Strong backend or AI engineering experience in production environments
• Experience building or scaling AI systems (LLMs, embeddings, recommendation systems, or automation workflows)
• Strong system design skills with experience in distributed systems
• Experience with production inference pipelines and AI orchestration
• Strong debugging ability in high-scale, latency-sensitive environments
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident response
• Proven ability to lead technical execution in cross-functional teams
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive projects end-to-end
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, globally distributed teams
• Tech Stack: Anthropic, Distributed Systems Tools, Docker, Kubernetes, LLM APIs, Node.js, NoSQL, Observability Stack (Logging, Metrics, Tracing), OpenAI, Open-Source Models, Python, and SQL

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• Savings Plan Options
• PTO

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