Lead AI Engineer
Lead AI Engineer
botfriday ai- Posted an hour ago
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Job Description
About the role
You'll join a growing engineering team as a senior technical member, focused on enabling AI across internal processes, engineering and delivery workflows, and customer-facing products. You'll lead AI initiatives end to end, make technical decisions, and work closely with engineering and business teams to build practical, reliable AI solutions.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex problems and turning AI opportunities into production-ready solutions.
Location: Hyderabad
Work Mode: Hybrid
What you'll do
- Lead AI initiatives across internal process automation, engineering and delivery, and customer-facing workflows
- Identify opportunities to use AI to automate processes and improve engineering and operational efficiency
- Design and build AI-powered applications and workflows using Python
- Own AI initiatives from problem definition and experimentation through implementation and delivery
- Make technical decisions around architecture, implementation, and engineering best practices
- Work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to translate problems into practical AI solutions
- Evaluate new AI technologies and identify opportunities to apply them effectively
- Ensure AI solutions are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and production-ready
- Mentor and guide engineers working on AI initiatives
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong, hands-on expertise in Python
- Experience building and deploying AI-powered applications, automation, or intelligent workflows
- Strong understanding of applying AI across internal processes, engineering workflows, and customer-facing products
- Strong understanding of software architecture, engineering best practices, and production environments
- Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of projects end to end
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Who you are
- You take ownership and drive work through to completion
- You're hands-on and enjoy building practical AI solutions
- You're technically curious and comfortable working with new AI technologies
- You're a strong problem solver who enjoys tackling complex and ambiguous challenges
- You communicate clearly and work well with different teams
- You lead by example and enjoy helping teams build and adopt new technologies
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Key Skills
Intelligent workflows
AI-powered applications
Engineering best practices





