Lead Python AI Engineer

We are seeking a Lead AI Engineer to design and deliver production-grade AI agents and data-integrated tool APIs in a cloud-native Python environment. You will shape agent architecture, ensure reliable observability and schema-compliant access patterns, and collaborate with distributed stakeholders to ship high-quality outcomes.

• Design production-grade AI agent architectures and tool interfaces aligned to platform standards
• Build scoped AI agents with tool-calling, structured outputs, and robust prompt/tool orchestration
• Implement read-only Model Context Protocol servers that securely expose enterprise datasets to agents
• Develop FastAPI services and asynchronous task handlers to support low-risk actions and ticket generation
• Write and optimize SQL for normalized cost datasets while respecting partitioning and clustering constraints
• Implement health and readiness probes, structured JSON logging, and distributed tracing for observability
• Establish unit and integration tests co-located with capability modules to protect critical flows
• Coordinate peer code reviews and enforce monorepo structure and engineering excellence practices
• Collaborate with product and architecture stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver measurable results

• 5+ years of production software development experience with Python 2+ years of hands-on experience building LLM integrations or AI agents
• Lead-level technical leadership experience guiding design and code quality
• Strong project ownership skills for delivering production-grade services end to end
• Advanced Python 3.11+ skills with AsyncIO and clean architecture practices
• Strong FastAPI skills for building backend microservices and tool APIs
• Strong SQL skills for authoring and optimizing analytical queries
• Solid Docker skills for packaging and running services reliably
• Hands-on Google Agent Development Kit experience for agent and tool development
• Model Context Protocol experience implementing safe, read-only data access patterns
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2) for cross-team collaboration

• Google Cloud Big Query experience optimizing large partitioned datasets
• Google Vertex AI experience integrating hosted models and evaluation workflows
• CI/CD experience building automated test and release pipelines
• Terraform experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure as code
• Lang Chain experience building agent workflows and tool integrations