Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nexus IT Group is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to design and launch a scalable enterprise artificial intelligence platform in a major public cloud environment. The role involves leading the development and deployment of AI models, establishing responsible AI practices, and mentoring engineers and data scientists across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and launch a scalable enterprise artificial intelligence platform in a major public cloud environment supporting both generative and predictive models
- Establish standards for prompt orchestration, knowledge-grounded response pipelines, and full lifecycle management of machine learning systems
- Build a multi-layered data architecture that connects operational and transactional systems into a unified intelligence environment
- Align AI initiatives with enterprise cloud, security, and governance strategies in partnership with architecture leadership
- Research and adopt emerging AI platform capabilities and determine business value and scalability
- Lead development and tuning of large language models, deep learning models, and domain-adapted AI solutions using managed services and custom frameworks
- Own end-to-end model lifecycle: training → validation → deployment → monitoring → retraining
- Implement knowledge-grounded AI workflows using vector search and semantic retrieval technologies
- Ensure highly available model hosting, version control, and scalable inference orchestration
- Architect ingestion pipelines that process structured and unstructured content including documents, images, voice, and communications
- Build AI-driven automation for classification, summarization, and information extraction across large document sets
- Optimize performance and cost using event-driven and serverless patterns
- Implement continuous integration and delivery for machine learning systems
- Standardize environment provisioning across development, test, and production environments using infrastructure-as-code
- Integrate monitoring, observability, and auditability across all AI services
- Enable containerized model deployment strategies
- Establish responsible AI practices including explainability, bias detection, and safe response generation
- Implement safeguards to reduce incorrect or unsafe AI outputs
- Ensure adherence to data protection regulations and enterprise security requirements
- Partner with security, legal, and compliance teams to operationalize governance controls
- Lead and mentor engineers and data scientists across multiple teams
- Partner with business leaders to identify and prioritize high-impact AI use cases
- Build reusable frameworks, internal standards, and knowledge-sharing programs
- Promote experimentation and responsible adoption of AI technologies across the organization
Skills
- Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Engineering, or related discipline
- ~12+ years in software or data engineering
- ~8+ years building and deploying AI/ML systems
- Strong hands-on experience building AI platforms in a cloud environment
- Deep experience with Python and modern ML frameworks
- Experience designing knowledge-grounded generative AI solutions using vector retrieval
- Expertise in ML lifecycle automation, deployment pipelines, and monitoring
- Experience operating in regulated or high-compliance environments
- Demonstrated leadership mentoring technical teams
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders
- Advanced degree preferred
Company Overview
Nexusitgroup is a company used for recruitment, it allows people to find jobs. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is http://www.nexusitgroup.com.