WE ARE HIRING: Lead AI Engineer Location: Remote (Sri Lanka) Employment Type: Full Time Industry: Artificial Intelligence / Analytics Platform / SaaS Technology Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Lead AI Engineer to drive the technical direction of a cutting-edge AI-powered analytics platform that enables business users to gain insights from enterprise data through natural language queries. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for designing and developing the AI core, agent architecture, knowledge systems, evaluation frameworks, and predictive intelligence capabilities that power enterprise-grade AI solutions. Key Responsibilities • Build and enhance the agent runtime and orchestration framework for complex multi-step business analysis. • Design systems that plan investigations, execute parallel queries, coordinate specialized AI agents, and generate actionable insights. • Own natural language to SQL and DAX query generation capabilities across enterprise data environments. • Develop deterministic query generation patterns and governed metric layers to ensure accuracy and reliability. • Design and maintain ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, and retrieval systems that power AI reasoning. • Develop anomaly detection, clustering, forecasting, and recommendation capabilities to proactively deliver business insights. • Optimize AI systems for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and responsiveness. • Implement model tiering, prompt optimization, caching strategies, streaming responses, and parallel processing techniques. • Develop evaluation frameworks, testing processes, release gates, and experimentation methodologies for AI systems. • Ensure AI security through row-level access controls, prompt injection defenses, schema pruning, and tool governance. • Support rapid onboarding of new business domains through configurable AI frameworks. • Provide technical leadership while remaining actively involved in hands-on engineering and problem solving. Candidate Profile • Strong track record in AI Engineering with recent experience delivering production-grade LLM-based systems. • Hands-on expertise building agentic AI systems including orchestration, tool usage, structured outputs, and multi-step planning. • Strong SQL skills and deep understanding of enterprise data warehouses. • Experience troubleshooting and optimizing AI-generated outputs across prompts, queries, and data schemas. • Experience building ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, or retrieval-augmented systems. • Proven success designing evaluation frameworks for non-deterministic AI systems. • Experience developing predictive analytics solutions including anomaly detection, clustering, and forecasting. • Strong software engineering skills with production-grade Python development. • Experience building asynchronous services, streaming APIs, and scalable AI architectures. • Ability to define technical strategy while remaining actively involved in implementation. Preferred Skills • Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and DAX. • Azure ecosystem experience. • Vector databases such as pgvector. • LLM observability and AI cost optimization tools. • Multi-tenant SaaS platform experience. • TypeScript knowledge. • Experience working within early-stage product environments. What We Offer • Opportunity to work on advanced AI and agentic systems solving real enterprise challenges. • Remote-first working environment with a highly experienced senior team. • Direct interaction with clients and exposure to complex business problems. • Significant influence over product direction and technical architecture. • Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and enterprise-scale deployments. Ready to take your career to new heights? We're InTalent Asia, your go-to recruitment partner in Sri Lanka, and we've got an exciting opportunity for you! Our client is looking for a skilled individual to fill the role of Lead AI Engineer. Apply now and see how you can be the perfect fit for this exclusive position! #InTalentAsia #CareerOpportunity #JobVacancy #LeadAIEngineer #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #LLM #AgenticAI #DataEngineering #PythonDeveloper #AIJobs #SaaS #ElevateYourCareer Originally posted on Himalayas