Lead AI engineer - Freelance

The role

You will lead the design, development, and adoption of AI systems within a strategic business domain. You will drive architecture decisions, define roadmaps, and deliver measurable outcomes using AI technologies.

What you will do

• Identify high-value opportunities with Business leaders
• Define the Tech vision and own the agent product roadmap for your domain
• Design and build production-grade AI systems
• Drive architecture decisions
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• Work closely with end users
• Measure adoption and outcomes
• Accelerate AI transformation across your domain
• Promote best practices for evaluation, testing, guardrails, and observability
• Review designs and mentor engineers

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in Software Engineering, ML Engineering, or Applied AI
• Strong experience with LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, evaluation, and production systems
• Ability to influence Product and Business decisions
• Proven leadership on complex cross-functional initiatives
• Python
• SQL
• OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral and Open-source models
• LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP and Vector Databases
• AWS or GCP, Docker and Kubernetes

Nice to have

• Link to your GitHub in your CV

About the company

Mirakl is a marketplace innovation company founded in 2012. It provides an operating system that includes enterprise marketplace solutions, AI-powered multichannel selling, retail media, and agentic commerce infrastructure.