Webflow

Lead AI Engineer

Webflow

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $204,500 - $290,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Serve as the primary AI engineering partner to the CEO and executive leadership team, translating ideas, strategic questions, and emerging concepts into production-ready AI agents and workflows with minimal oversight.
  • Independently take ideas from concept to production, shaping problem statements, designing system architecture, implementing code, validating outputs, and operationalizing solutions without requiring heavy product or engineering management.
  • Design and implement complex, multi-step agentic workflows, including multi-agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool use, memory strategies, evaluation frameworks, and cross-system automation.
  • Develop production-grade AI systems using modern LLMs, orchestration frameworks, and internal tooling, with strong attention to scalability, performance, observability, and clean engineering practices.
  • Operationalize AI responsibly by implementing guardrails, structured evaluations, monitoring, and validation layers to ensure predictable behavior, reliability, and compliance.
  • Partner closely with Security and Legal to properly gate sensitive use cases, implementing access controls, audit logging, data minimization, and enterprise-grade governance patterns while balancing safety and speed.
  • Translate ambiguous, high-visibility problems into clear technical solutions, balancing speed, quality, and risk while maintaining a high bar for accuracy and trust.
  • Evaluate, select, and rationalize AI tools and platforms, contributing to capability-to-tool decisions and ensuring consolidation, security alignment, and long-term sustainability across the enterprise.
  • Support post-launch adoption and iteration, incorporating feedback, refining workflows, and continuously improving performance, usability, and measurable impact.
  • Contribute to org-wide AI maturity by documenting architectural patterns, sharing best practices, and establishing repeatable approaches that elevate internal AI capabilities across Webflow.

Requirements

  • 7-10+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating complex production systems in cloud environments (or equivalent practical experience).
  • Proven experience building and deploying AI-powered systems in production, including agent-based or multi-step workflows (RAG, orchestration, tool-calling, memory strategies, evaluation, and failure handling).
  • Strong proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript) with demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code.
  • Deep engineering discipline across clean architecture, distributed systems, APIs, CI/CD, testing strategies, and production observability.
  • Experience partnering directly with senior or executive stakeholders, translating ambiguous ideas into scalable, technically sound solutions with measurable impact across enterprise systems.
Benefits
  • Ownership in what you help build.
  • Health coverage that actually covers you.
  • Support for every stage of family life.
  • Time off that’s actually off.
  • Wellness for the whole you.
  • Invest in your future.
  • Monthly stipends that flex with your life.
  • Bonus for building together.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI systems developmentmulti-agent orchestrationretrieval-augmented generationsystem architecture designproduction-grade codecloud environmentsPythonTypeScriptclean architecturedistributed systems
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationstakeholder managementadaptabilityattention to detailcritical thinkingorganizational skillsleadershipfeedback incorporation