dentsu · 5 days ago
Lead AI Engineer (R&D Innovation Team)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$163K/yr - $210K/yrDentsu is a global company seeking a Lead AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI capabilities that enhance their products. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop scalable AI systems for various applications such as content personalization and audience analytics.
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Responsibilities
AI Solution Development: Architect, develop, and maintain AI systems for media products
Collaboration : Partner with product, engineering, and data teams to translate business needs into technical solutions
Deployment & Scaling : Implement AI models in production environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across global markets
Continuous Improvement : Monitor, evaluate, and iterate on AI models using real-world data and feedback
Research & Innovation : Stay current with AI/ML advancements; prototype and recommend new technologies to keep our products at the forefront of innovation
Ethics & Compliance : Champion responsible AI practices, ensuring fairness, transparency, and compliance with data privacy regulations
Qualification
Required
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Strong Python skills, with experience in LLM orchestration libraries (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel), chain-of-thought, and structured reasoning approaches
Demonstrated experience with enterprise LLMs – their APIs, performance challenges, and how to mitigate those (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.)
Demonstrated production experience with API conventions and integration into pipelines, e.g. RESTful API, FastAPI, or similar
Demonstrated experience integrating multiple approaches for extracting highest-quality output from LLMs, e.g. prompt engineering, multi-agents, structured output validation, hybrid RAG, in-context learning (ICL), or NLP- or ontology-powered layering
Proficiency with document processing pipelines (text extraction, chunking, embedding)
Demonstrated production experience with measuring and improving AI systems, tracing and AI observability (e.g. Arize, OpenTelemetry, LangSmith)
Strong foundation in data science fundamentals, including data analysis, statistical methods, and experience working with structured and unstructured data
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and MLOps tools
Preferred
PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Benefits
Medical, vision, and dental insurance
Life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
401k
Flexible paid time off
At least 15 paid holidays per year
Paid sick and safe leave
Paid parental leave
Company
dentsu
We are dentsu.
Founded in 1968
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$24.88MKey Investors
Epiris
2012-07-12Acquired
1993-11-01Private Equity· $24.88M
Leadership Team
Dawn Rowlands
CEO Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigel Sharrocks
CEO, Aegis Media Global Brands
Recent News
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