Technical Lead, Central AI Lab

Vesta Software Group

full-time

Posted on: 2/17/2026

Location Type: Remote

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About the role

Build and ship production-grade AI capabilities that can be reused across Vesta Business Units (BUs)
Lead by example as a hands-on engineer, set the engineering bar, and turn pilots into repeatable starter kits
Deliver reusable "starter kits" aligned to the AI-First Strategy build plan
Develop production-ready pilots with clear monitoring, evaluation, runbooks, and BU handover
Create reference architectures and implementation patterns that work across heterogeneous BU stacks
Provide technical leadership: own end-to-end solution design and implementation for central pilots
Support the adoption of AI-DLC methodology by leading by example
Build full-stack capabilities: APIs, integrations, data flows, UI surfaces, LLM application layers
Establish CI/CD patterns for AI-enabled systems
Drive reliability: observability, cost controls, latency, fallbacks, safe failure modes
Operationalize AI-DLC/AI-SDLC practices: spec-first delivery, eval harnesses, quality gates, and auditable artifacts
Ensure solutions can be safely operated by BUs with minimal central dependency
Coach junior engineers and partner engineers on modern SDLC and DevOps practices

7+ years building and operating production software systems (SaaS, enterprise, or similar)
Strong SDLC fundamentals: testing, code review, CI/CD, release management, incident thinking
Proven ability to design secure systems: authN/authZ, secrets management, audit/logging, least privilege
Strong backend engineering (APIs, data stores, async patterns) and comfort going "full stack" when needed
Cloud and DevOps competence (AWS and/or Azure; containers; infrastructure automation)
Practical experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into products or workflows (does not need to be "AI researcher" background)
Ability to operate across varied tech environments (legacy + modern), with high autonomy and good stakeholder communication
Experience with modernization patterns (strangler, wrappers, service extraction) (Nice-to-have)
Exposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar context/tooling integration approaches (Nice-to-have)
Experience shipping customer-facing support automation, voice workflows, or knowledge systems (Nice-to-have)
Experience in vertical market software or multi-product portfolios (Nice-to-have)

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI capabilitiesproduction software systemsSDLCCI/CDbackend engineeringAPIscloud computingDevOpsinfrastructure automationAI/LLM integration

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcoachingstakeholder communicationautonomy