AI Tech Lead - Freelance

Daily rate: 400

Context

We are looking for an AI Tech Lead to contribute to the development of projects within a leading AI program. The role combines technical leadership of a cross-functional AI squad with hands-on design and delivery of end-to-end, scalable AI solutions in an Azure cloud environment.

Missions

• Lead and coordinate a cross-functional AI squad of up to 6 engineers, ensuring alignment on technical direction, priorities, and delivery timelines.
• Define and enforce technical standards, best practices, and architecture guidelines for AI solutions across the squad.
• Design and oversee the development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting AI solutions on Azure.
• Drive the integration of advanced AI capabilities: mostly RAG, plus LLMs, speech-to-text, computer vision, and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) as a plus.
• Architect and validate cloud-based AI solutions leveraging Azure services (Functions, App Services, Cosmos DB, Azure Key Vault, Azure OpenAI).
• Conduct code reviews, technical mentoring, and upskilling of squad members.
• Act as the technical interface between the squad and stakeholders (Product Owner, Data Scientists, frontend developers, business teams).
• Monitor system performance, define reliability and observability standards, and ensure high availability of AI deployments.
• Maintain strong awareness of market trends in Generative AI, LLMs, and prompt engineering, and translate them into actionable squad initiatives.

Tools & Environment

• RAG
• Generative AI and prompt engineering
• Backend systems and API development
• Azure (Functions, App Services, Cosmos DB, Azure Key Vault, Azure OpenAI)
• LLMs