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Requirement ID: 91093
Job Title: AI Technical Lead
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 6 - 9 months
Location: USA (Houston, TX)
Job Description:
Detailed JD (Roles and Responsibilities)

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and own end-to-end Agentic AI solutions on AWS — from design through production deployment.
  • Lead and mentor a cross-functional Scrum team of engineers, ML practitioners, and data specialists.
  • Define technical standards, code-review practices, and engineering best practices for the team.
  • Design and implement RAG pipelines, LLM-powered agents, and multi-agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Drive cloud architecture decisions: serverless, microservices, containers (ECS/EKS), and data services on AWS.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
  • Actively participate in sprint ceremonies — planning, stand-ups, retrospectives — as the technical authority.
  • Establish CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and automated testing strategies.
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging AI tools, models, and frameworks into the product roadmap.
  • Ensure security, scalability, observability, and cost-efficiency of all cloud-based AI workloads. 

 

 

Required Expertise

  • AWS Full-Stack Engineering
    • Hands-on experience with core AWS compute, storage, networking, and AI/ML services.
    • Lambda, ECS/EKS, EC2, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Bedrock, SageMaker, Step Functions
    • IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudFormation / CDK / Terraform
    • Proven ability to design resilient, highly available, and cost-optimised architectures (Well-Architected Framework).
    • CI/CD implementation using CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or equivalent tooling.
  • Artificial Intelligence, RAG & Agents
    • Practical experience with LLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, AWS Bedrock, Mistral, or similar).
    • Design and deployment of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines at scale.Embedding models, vector stores (Pinecone, pgvector, OpenSearch, Weaviate), chunking strategies
    • Building autonomous and multi-agent systems using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Amazon Bedrock Agents.
    • Prompt engineering, chain-of-thought reasoning, tool/function calling, and agent memory management.
    • Evaluation, monitoring, and observability of AI systems (hallucination detection, latency, cost tracking).
  • Python Development
    • Expert-level Python for backend services, data processing, and AI/ML workflows.
    • Proficiency with key libraries: FastAPI / Flask, Pydantic, asyncio, boto3, LangChain / LlamaIndex.
    • Strong software engineering fundamentals: clean code, SOLID principles, unit and integration testing.
  • Experience supporting project-to-operations transition in onsite, client-facing environments
  • Based in Houston, TX with the ability to work out of the Woodside client site

 

 

Must Have Capabilities

  • AWS Architecture 
  • Python Expert        
  • LLM Integration     
  • RAG Pipelines        
  • Agent Frameworks
  • CI/CD & IaC            
  • Scrum / Agile Leadership     
  • API Design               
  • Cloud Security       
  • Production AI Systems
  • Demonstrable hands-on delivery (not just oversight) of AI-powered, cloud-native applications.
  • Strong execution discipline with experience in tracking deliverables, managing competing priorities, and ensuring quality outcomes
  • Strong communication skills to bridge technical depth with business stakeholders.
  • Track record of delivering production systems within Agile sprints.

 

Nice to Have

  • Experience with AWS Bedrock Agents, Knowledge Bases, or Guardrails.
  • Knowledge of fine-tuning or RLHF for domain-specific LLM adaptation.
  • Familiarity with graph databases (Neptune) or knowledge graphs for agent reasoning.
  • Frontend experience (React, Next.js) for full-stack ownership of AI-powered interfaces.
  • Data engineering background: Glue, Athena, Redshift, or Spark.
  • Exposure to MLOps practices and tooling (MLflow, W&B, SageMaker Pipelines).
  • AWS certifications: Solutions Architect Professional, Machine Learning Specialty.
  • Contributions to open-source AI / ML projects.
  • Experience with multi-modal AI (vision, speech, embeddings beyond text).

 

Ideal Profile

The successful candidate is a builder at heart — someone who moves fluidly between whiteboard architecture and writing production code. They are naturally curious about the AI landscape, stay ahead of rapidly evolving agent frameworks, and bring a pragmatic engineering mindset that turns experimentation into reliable, scalable products.

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3–5 years in cloud-native AWS environments.
  • 2+ years of hands-on work with LLMs, RAG, or autonomous AI agents in a production context.
  • Prior experience leading technical delivery within a Scrum or scaled-Agile (SAFe) team.
  • A portfolio or demonstrable examples of AI-powered products shipped to production.
Total Experience 10+years in Software Engineering
Relevant Experience 5+years in AWS & 2+ years in AI
Mandatory skills
Skill AreaMinimum Requirement
AWS (Compute & Networking)3+ years hands-on: Lambda, ECS/EKS, API GW, VPC, IAM
AWS AI/ML ServicesPractical use of Bedrock, SageMaker, or equivalent
Python5+ years; async, OOP, testing, packaging
LLM IntegrationProduction integration with ≥1 major LLM provider
RAG Pipeline DevelopmentEnd-to-end design incl. vector stores & retrieval tuning
Agentic FrameworksLangChain / LangGraph / Bedrock Agents / AutoGen (≥1)
CI/CD & IaCGitHub Actions / CodePipeline + CloudFormation / CDK / Terraform
Agile / ScrumTechnical lead or senior developer role in active Scrum team
Desired skills
Skill AreaValue Added
AWS Bedrock Agents & GuardrailsAccelerates safe, managed agent deployment
LLM Fine-tuning / RLHFEnables domain-specific model customisation
MLOps (MLflow, W&B)Improves model lifecycle and experiment tracking
Graph Databases (Neptune)Supports complex knowledge graph reasoning
Frontend (React / Next.js)Enables full product ownership end-to-end
Multi-modal AIExpands solution space beyond text-only agents
AWS Certifications (Pro / ML)Validates cloud architecture depth
Open-source ContributionsSignals community engagement & initiative
Domain (Industry) Oil and Gas
Work Location Houston, TX (client office is a must, no remote allowed)
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