TheIncLab

AI Development Lead

TheIncLab

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: McLean • Florida • Virginia • United States

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Senior

About the role

  • **Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept**
  • As an AI Development Lead, you will work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business leaders to translate cutting-edge AI research into scalable, reliable, and mission-impacting software.
  • **Drive Technical Strategy & Execution****Lead architecture, design, and delivery of AI/ML systems, including LLMs, RAG workflows, agents, and foundation models from prototyping to production.
  • **Lead End-to-End AI Lifecycle****Oversee model development including data preparation, training/optimization, evaluation/validation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Ensure systems adhere to robustness, scalability, observability, and ethical AI standards.
  • **Collaborate Cross-Functionally****Partner with product managers, data engineers, UX/design, and business stakeholders to define requirements, set priorities, and deliver impactful AI solutions aligned to business needs.
  • **Establish Best Practices****Champion CI/CD and MLOps practices, including model versioning, automated pipelines, performance monitoring, and reproducibility.
  • **Mentorship & Leadership****Mentor engineers and scientists, fostering high engineering standards, technical growth, innovation, and accountability.
  • **Research & Innovation Impact****Stay ahead of industry advancements in generative AI, foundational model tech, self-supervised learning, optimization techniques, RLHF, and robustness/interpretability. Apply research insights to product enhancements and novel solutions.

Requirements

  • **Capabilities that will enable your success**
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
  • Minimum 5+ years in AI/ML development with clear progression into technical leadership roles.
  • Experience from concept through execution and operationalization of AI/ML systems.
  • Deep understanding of generative AI architectures, training paradigms, and foundation models.
  • Hands-on experience with large deep learning models: language, vision, event, or graph domains.
  • Expertise in one or more advanced topics: self-supervised learning, training optimization, robustness, explainability, RLHF.
  • Demonstrated record of delivering AI systems at scale, both training compute and inference loads.
  • Experience building platform-level capabilities or reusable libraries that uplift other teams.
  • Track record of meaningful contributions to the field, such as publications, open-source code, or recognized projects.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to align AI work with business strategy.
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed.
Benefits
  • **Benefits**
  • At TheIncLab we recognize that innovation thrives when employees are provided with ample support and resources. Our benefits packages reflect that:
  • Hybrid and flexible work schedules
  • Professional development programs
  • Training and certification reimbursement
  • Extended and floating holiday schedule
  • Paid time off and Paid volunteer time
  • Health and Wellness Benefits include options for Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance along with access to Wellness, Mental Health, and Employee Assistance Programs.
  • 100% Company Paid Benefits that include STD, LTD, and Basic Life insurance.
  • 401(k) Plan Options with employer matching
  • Incentive bonuses for eligible clearances, performance, and employee referrals.
  • A company culture that values your individual strengths, career goals, and contributions to the team.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI developmentML systemsLLMsRAG workflowsdata preparationtraining optimizationmodel evaluationdeploymentMLOpsself-supervised learning
Soft Skills
leadershipmentorshipcommunicationcollaborationinnovationaccountabilitytechnical growthcross-functional teamworkproblem-solvingstrategic alignment