OB - Lead AI Engineer

The role

You will lead the build of a development pipeline where AI agents implement work initiated by business users. You will own the machinery including conventions, gates, identities, autonomy tiers, and measurements to ensure AI-generated code is safe to merge.

What you will do

• Own the knowledge plane including project conventions, reusable agent procedures, and source indexing.
• Build gates that read artifacts to verify what actually happened.
• Design authority and identity using least-privilege, short-lived agent credentials.
• Calibrate autonomy tiers by routing changes based on difficulty to undo.
• Engineer containment through circuit breakers, ceilings on tokens, and rollbacks.
• Own intake and measurement including the request surface and evaluation harness.
• Run the improvement ritual using dated incident records and rule evaluation.

Required qualifications

• Based in Latin America, with enough timezone overlap for daily collaboration with a U.S.-based engineering team.
• 10+ years in software engineering, including deep CI/CD and platform experience.
• Strong engineer first.
• Real security instincts.
• Testing judgment.
• Hands-on agentic tooling experience.
• Comfortable operating cross-functionally.
• A willing writer.
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken).

Nice to have

• Experience working with Microsoft Azure and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), including identity and access management.
• Experience building integrations with Microsoft Outlook and other Microsoft 365 services.

Benefits

• Be part of a curated network of high-caliber, values-driven professionals
• Do meaningful, strategic work on your terms
• Stay in motion without burnout
• Access Empirical’s community, engineering talent, and shared knowledge base
• Work with clients who value clarity, velocity, and outcomes—not just hours

About the company

Empirical is a product development partner that is people-first and AI-driven by design. They help tech companies through AI-enabled product leadership, end-to-end development, nearshore team augmentation, and AI strategy consulting.