Lead AI Engineer

As a Lead AI Engineer at Searce you will champion hands-on intelligent engineering, architect and deliver next-gen AI solutions that own client impact and scale meaningful business value.What are we looking forreal solver?Solver? Absolutely. But not the usual kind. We're searching for the architects of the audacious & the pioneers of the possible. If you're the type to dismantle assumptions, re-engineer ‘best practices,’ and build solutions that make the future possible NOW, then you're speaking our language.- Improver. Solver. Futurist. - Great sense of humor. - ‘Possible. It is.’ Mindset. - Compassionate collaborator. Bold experimenter. Tireless iterator. - Natural creativity that doesn’t just challenge the norm, but solves to design what’s better. - Thinks in systems. Solves at scale.This Isn’t for Everyone. But if you’re the kind who questions why things are done a certain way— and then identifies 3 better ways to do it — we’d love to chat with you.Your Responsibilitieswhat you will wake up to solve.You'll be a hands-on leader and principal technical expert at the core of our mission to futurify our clients' businesses. As the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for your AI Engineering squad, you'll own the transformation of ambitious AI concepts into tangible, high-impact realities by designing, developing, and deploying cutting-edge AI solutions that redefine capabilities and drive unprecedented growth. Beyond leading and mentoring a team of exceptional AI engineers, you'll remain personally engaged in the technical execution and strategic direction of your squad's most critical AI initiatives, holding full accountability for the entire lifecycle from ideation and proof-of-concept to scalable deployment and continuous optimization, directly contributing to our clients' success.Engineer & Deploy Intelligent Solutions: For your assigned technical components, you will execute the full-lifecycle development of innovative AI/ML solutions. This includes hands-on design, coding, testing, and deployment of robust, scalable intelligent systems, ensuring both technical excellence and profound business relevance for our clients. You will actively implement cutting-edge AI technologies, frameworks, and platforms, embedding fairness, transparency, and privacy considerations into every line of code.Drive System Scalability & Optimization: You will directly build and optimize scalable AI architectures and core system components, ensuring solutions are highly performant, reliable, and production-ready for long-term operational success.Deliver Impact Through Technical expertise: You are a DRI for intelligent, impactful client outcomes through your direct technical delivery. You will contribute to a vibrant culture of continuous innovation and technical excellence, living in an "Always Beta" mindset, and demonstrating a learner's curiosity while relentlessly solving complex engineering challenges.Lead by Impact and Example, Not by Control: At Searce, Leadership is an action not a title, you are DRI for intelligent impactful client outcomes. You'll coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing Squad building a vibrant culture of continuous innovation, and technical excellence by cultivating a team of happier Do-ers. Live in "Always Beta" mindset, build learners, not followers.Collaborate for Seamless Integration: You will actively partner with AI Solutions Consultants, other AI engineers, data scientists, and internal teams to translate business challenges into precise technical requirements, implementing solutions that ensure seamless integration and adoption for our clientsWelcome to SearceThe ‘process-first’, AI-native modern tech consultancy that's rewriting the rules.We don’t do traditional.As an engineering-led consultancy, we are dedicated to relentlessly improving the real business outcomes. Our solvers co-innovate with clients to futurify operations and make processes smarter, faster & better. We build alongside our clients. Not for the vanity metrics. But for the transformation to embed lasting competitive advantage for our clients.The result? Modern business reinvention, built on math, tech, and clarity of purpose.The DNA of a ‘Searcian’superpowers we value.The ‘happier’ core- happier-at-heart: h umble, a daptable, p ositive, p assionate, i nnovative, e xcellence-minded, r esponsible. - happier-in-action: Not just a poster on the wall; It's how we make decisions, treat each other, show up for clients & hire or promote people. - Thinks like a founder. Acts like an owner. - Always in Beta: Relentless curiosity. Openness to learn, un-learn, and re-learn. - Real Optimist: Views all setbacks as opportunities. - Believes in truth over comfort. Ideas over titles. Learning over knowing. - Embraces chaos with calm. Evolves faster than the market.Functional Skills- Deep Technical Acumen: Operates at the cutting edge of AI, applying advanced technical knowledge to engineer and implement groundbreaking solutions, and guide the squad in developing future capabilities. - Influence Through Technical Leadership: Steers decisions and outcomes through the clarity of code, robust data insights, and logical arguments. - Structured Problem-Solving: Simplifies chaotic technical challenges for the squad by breaking them into solvable chunks using first-principles thinking. - Squad Delivery Ownership: Follows through on the squad's solution execution—owning technical outcomes from ideation to deployment with rigor, precision, and pride, ensuring tangible, real-world business value. - Seamless Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partners effortlessly with fellow squad members, technical leads, and cross-functional stakeholders—aligning the squad's contributions toward shared technical and client success.Tech Superpowers- Deep AI Engineering Mastery & Guidance: Possesses profound, hands-on expertise in engineering, optimizing, and deploying foundational models, custom AI solutions, and complex multi-modal systems. You'll also guide your squad in understanding model architectures, training methodologies, and ethical AI development from the ground up, ensuring their collective proficiency. - Intelligent Systems Architecture & Oversight: You'll directly contribute to and oversee the coding and implementation of robust, scalable, and production-grade AI platforms and MLOps components for your squad's projects. You'll translate abstract technical requirements into high-performance, maintainable AI system designs, always considering reliability, security, and future extensibility across the squad's work. - Cloud-Native AI capability: More than cloud-certified, you are deeply cloud-capable in applied AI engineering. You proficiently leverage and guide your team in utilizing leading cloud AI/ML ecosystems to build, deploy, and manage AI solutions.Experience & Relevance- A value-driven AI/ML Engineering Lead with 6+ years of experience in building and scaling end-to-end AI engineering and solution delivery. - Proven track record as a hands-on builder, and lead, contributing to the design, development, and deployment of complex, enterprise-grade AI/ML platforms and solutions. Expert in leveraging Google Cloud's AI/ML ecosystem (Vertex AI, BigQuery ML, GKE for MLOps) to deliver highly performant, scalable, and impactful AI transformations. - Experience in building and optimizing intelligent systems and personally driving the technical execution from conception to scalable deployment. - Holds a degree (BE/BTech in CS/Engineering) complemented by and advanced degree (MS in CS/Engineering) and Google Cloud certifications.Bonus Points (you will thrive if you have)- Passion for AI: 0→1, 1→10: Understands and has actively contributed to the lifecycle of building and scaling solutions or initiatives, from inception (0→1) to significant adoption and growth (1→10). - Possess the very DNA of a Searce solver : An action-oriented individual with a clear bias for building, solving, and delivering real-world impact within projects and client engagements. - Build , not present; Solve , not posture; Deliver , not debate. - Impact over optics and solving for real outcomes over ‘we’ve always done it this way.’Join the ‘real solvers’ready to futurify?If you are excited by the possibilities of what an AI-native engineering-led, modern tech consultancy can do to futurify businesses, apply here and experience the ‘ Art of the possible ’. 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