Lead AI Engineer

The role

You will lead engineering for one or more AI initiatives. You will architect the stack, prompt engineer LLMs, and work with product managers, designers, and engineers to take products from idea to production.

What you will do

• Lead engineering for one or more AI initiatives
• Architect the stack
• Prompt engineer LLMs to solve real world problems
• Work with product managers, designers, and other engineers to take products from idea to production
• Work with a startup founder to build the MVP of their idea
• Build an internal AI tool to transform workflows
• Help grow the team and interview future candidates
• Mentor other engineers

Required qualifications

• Experience building great products with LLMs through work, personal projects, or open source
• Shipped something real with LLMs
• Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, and agentic patterns
• Experience building evals for LLM-powered products
• Ability to quickly learn new skills in the AI space
• Experience leading the technical direction of products
• Ability to work effectively with product, design, and other partners
• Ability to contribute to multiple projects at the same time
• Comfortable communicating in English, written and verbal

Nice to have

• Python (e.g. FastAPI) experience
• TypeScript experience
• Experience with finetuning LLMs
• Curiosity about new developments in AI
• Uses AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc) to supercharge your own coding workflow

Benefits

• Support work-life balance

About the company

Sierra Studio is an AI engineering studio and startup incubator. They create products across all areas of software from web and mobile apps to work at the forefront of AI and large language models.