Lead Software Engineer

Predictive Science - AI Engineering & Prompt Architecture Lead - Vice President

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As a Vice President – AI Engineering & Prompt Architecture Lead in Predictive Science, you will own the technical vision and delivery for a team of prompt engineers and AI/ML model developers building intelligent document processing and data extraction solutions in the KYC/AML domain.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Lead and develop a team of 8–15 prompt engineers and AI/ML developers; set technical direction, run architecture reviews, and define quality standards for prompts and model artifacts.
• Architect agentic, multi-step AI workflows chaining classification → extraction → cross-validation → exception routing with human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
• Debug and remediate complex prompt failures (context-window overflow, instruction drift in long chains, RAG retrieval poisoning, output/format instability).
• Design prompt/model evaluation frameworks measuring accuracy plus consistency, robustness, latency, cost-per-call, and hallucination rate.
• Operationalize prompt lifecycle management as production code: versioning, CI/CD prompt tests, A/B experiments, rollback, and audited change history.
• Guide model selection and optimization (prompting vs fine-tuning vs custom training) balancing accuracy, latency, cost, and data sensitivity.
• Design RAG architectures for financial documents: chunking, embeddings, vector store design, re-ranking, and context injection.
• Oversee fine-tuning/training workflows: dataset curation, annotation quality, training configurations, and generalization across document variants.
• Build and maintain evaluation infrastructure: benchmark/golden datasets, regression suites, and automated scoring to catch regressions pre-production.
• Define confidence calibration and escalation logic so systems estimate uncertainty and route low-confidence outputs to human reviewers with the right context.
• Partner with governance/model risk and data engineering: produce validator-ready documentation (explainability/auditability) and ensure robust, refreshed data/annotation/eval pipelines; drive AI-native development practices to improve velocity.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• 10+ years in NLP/AI/ML or computational linguistics, including 3+ years leading technical teams with direct reports.
• Hands-on LLM internals expertise: tokenization impacts, attention limits, context window management, and temperature/sampling trade-offs.
• Proven prompt architecture design/debugging: multi-turn chains, few-/many-shot, chain-of-thought, self-consistency, and constitutional AI.
• Strong RAG system design experience: embeddings trade-offs (e.g., ada/BGE/Cohere), chunking for semi-structured docs, hybrid retrieval (dense+sparse), and re-ranking.
• Fine-tuning experience: LoRA/QLoRA, instruction tuning, RLHF/DPO, dataset curation, and evaluating tuned vs prompted performance.
• Python + ML engineering proficiency: PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain/LlamaIndex (or equivalents), vector DBs (Pinecone/Weaviate/pgvector), and API development.
• AI evaluation systems experience beyond F1: faithfulness, answer relevance, RAG context precision/recall, automated eval pipelines, and LLM-as-judge.
• Deep understanding of LLM failure modes: hallucinations, sycophancy, long-context instruction degradation, prompt-format sensitivity, and catastrophic forgetting.
• Structured output enforcement in production: JSON mode, function calling, constrained decoding, output parsers, and schema validation.
• Build-vs-buy/model selection track record: benchmarking foundation models (GPT-4/Claude/Llama/Mistral) against task requirements.
• Leadership under ambiguity: pragmatic trade-offs, rapid iteration as practices evolve, and strong communication with compliance, risk, and business stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Domain expertise in KYC/AML or financial document processing: entity extraction from registries, beneficial ownership structures, sanctions screening logic, adverse media classification.

• Experience designing autonomous AI agents: tool-use patterns, planning/reasoning loops, memory architectures, and safety guardrails for regulated environments.

• Knowledge of AI security/adversarial robustness: prompt injection defense, jailbreak detection, data poisoning awareness, and output monitoring for sensitive financial data.

• Experience with model distillation to produce smaller, faster models for cost-effective deployment.

• Familiarity with AI observability/monitoring: tracking prompt/model performance, drift detection, alerting, and health dashboards.

• Experience with multi-modal AI combining OCR, layout understanding, and LLM-based extraction for complex documents.

• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in CS/NLP/ML or equivalent depth via publications, open-source, or production system design and Passion for talent development: growing engineers from junior prompt writers into senior AI system designers via structured mentorship.