Job Details

Lead AI Engineer

Location: Remote (US, excluding California) or Hybrid in Brentwood, TN

Compensation: $210,000 - $230,000 (Base Salary) + Discretionary Incentive

We are a stable, growing enterprise software company providing integrated risk management and compliance solutions to over 5,000 financial institutions nationwide. As the First AI Hire, you will partner directly with the CEO and CTO to define and deliver an ambitious AI roadmap, focusing on shipping agentic AI solutions that accelerate product development and deliver extraordinary outcomes for our customers.

This is a career-defining opportunity with a serious commitment to AI transformation, backed by a significant budget and Private Equity funding. You will lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor teams to continuously innovate at the boundaries of enterprise AI.

Key Responsibilities:

• AI Product Development: Define the AI-first vision and technical roadmap. Own the technical design and architecture of best-in-class AI features and drive the adoption of AI-powered products.
• Agentic Solutions: Leverage deep expertise in modern AI architectures (e.g., RAG, vector databases) to ship intelligent, agentic solutions to a large, established customer base.
• Team Leadership: Lead various AI initiatives across multiple teams. Mentor engineers on AI technologies and mindset, and document outcomes to create repeatable processes.
• Process Implementation: Work with cross-functional teams to implement best-practice AI-first development processes and drive build-measure-learn cycles with clear success metrics.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner effectively with product, operations, and engineering leadership to remove blockers and enable rapid, quality feature shipping.