As a Lead AI Engineer, you will design and build applied AI solutions that drive measurable business value from concept through scalable production deployment. You'll architect enterprise AI systems leveraging large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows while leading technical strategy and mentoring engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
Core Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, AI, Data Science, or a related field. Master's degree is advantageous.
8+ years of professional experience in AI, Machine Learning, and/or Software Engineering, backed by a proven track record of successfully delivered projects.
Experience bringing incubated AI solutions to production, including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and vigilant monitoring.
Strong programming skills one or more mainstream programming languages such as Python, Golang, C# or TypeScript.
Experience with context engineering, including retrieval architecture, embeddings, vector databases, search technologies, and retrieval optimization techniques.
Strong backend engineering fundamentals, including APIs, distributed services, cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, integration, automation, and security.
A solid background in DevOps and MLOps/LLMOps practices, and familiarity with tools to manage infrastructure as code, like Terraform and package managers like Helm Charts.
Ability to design solutions that integrate enterprise applications, business processes, workflows, and data platforms.
Applied AI & Architecture
Experience designing and implementing AI-driven architectures using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic workflows, orchestration patterns, and enterprise data sources.
Strong understanding of the AI system lifecycle, including evaluation, deployment, monitoring, governance, and continuous improvement.
Experience with MLOps lifecycles, deployment pipelines, model operations, and observability for AI systems is advantageous.
Collaboration & Execution
Experience working closely with customers, stakeholders, and domain experts to define and deliver solutions.
Demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype, experiment, measure outcomes, and iterate quickly in real-world customer and enterprise environments.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, translating complex business problems into clear technical strategies, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
Experience leading technical discussions, influencing architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving alignment across teams.
Track record of influencing technical direction and technology strategy through hands-on delivery, experimentation, and evidence-based recommendations.
Experience with two or more of the following technologies is highly desirable
LLM Serving & AI Platforms
vLLM, LiteLLM, KServe or similar LLM serving platforms.
AI gateways, model routing, inference serving and multi-modal orchestration.
Foundation Model
Cohere, OpenAI, Anthrophic, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek or other open-source LLMs.
Agentic AI
LangGraph, PydanticAI, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen or similar agentic AI frameworks.
Tool calling, MCP, workflow orchestration and autonomous agents.
AI Evaluation & Observability
MLFlow, DeepEval, Ragas, Promptfoo, Langfuse or similar evaluation and observability tools.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform and cloud-native deployments platforms.
GPU infrastructure and inference optimization.
Model Development
Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers, PEFT, LoRA).
Fine-tuning, model evaluation, benchmarking, prompt engineering and model optimization.
Experience building enterprise AI platforms or developer tooling.
Experience working with AMD, NVIDIA, or other AI accelerator technologies.
Experience with enterprise software domains such as ERP, EAM, Service Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or Field Service.
Experience building customer-facing demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, or innovation showcases.
Contributions to open-source AI projects, technical communities, conferences, or publications.
Experience working with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud AI services.
Nice to Have
Experience building enterprise AI platforms or developer tooling.
Experience working with AMD, NVIDIA, or other AI accelerator technologies.
Experience with enterprise software domains such as ERP, EAM, Service Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or Field Service.
Experience building customer-facing demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, or innovation showcases.
Contributions to open-source AI projects, technical communities, conferences, or publications.
Experience working with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud AI services.
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About IGT1 IGT1 is a rapidly growing offshore technology and talent solutions company based in Port City Colombo. We are a fully owned subsidiary of IGT I Holdings Sweden AB, funded by the three of world’s leading private equity firms; EQT Group, Hg, and TA Associates. We’re also proud to be a sister company of IFS, Sri Lanka’s largest and most established technology company.  At IGT1, we partner with global businesses to provide them with an operation that maximizes efficiency, spurs growth, allows them to develop and deliver world-class product and services, and create long-term value. Our people-first culture champions diversity, teamwork, and continuous learning, creating an environment where talent thrives.  With a team of over 500 professionals and counting, we are always looking for passionate, skilled individuals who want to make a global impact while being part of something extraordinary.  Through our offshore collaboration model, you'll be embedded within the team of one of our esteemed international clients, contributing directly to high-impact, enterprise-level initiatives.  About the client: Sitecore  Sitecore delivers a composable digital experience platform that empowers the world’s smartest and largest brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers. A highly decorated industry leader, Sitecore is the leading company bringing together content, commerce, and data into one connected platform that delivers millions of digital experiences every day. Thousands of blue-chip companies including American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, L’Oréal, and Volvo Cars rely on Sitecore to provide more engaging, personalized experiences for their customers.