Centraprise · 1 day ago
Gen AI Technical Lead
Frederick, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
10+ years expCentraprise is seeking an experienced AI Technical Lead to design, build, and scale AI systems with a strong focus on Generative AI. This role involves driving end-to-end AI solution development and leading technical strategy while collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver AI-driven capabilities across the enterprise.
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Hiring Manager
Rahul Jaiswal
Responsibilities
Lead the design and development of Generative AI solutions using LLMs, multimodal models, and diffusion models
Build and maintain Agentic AI systems, including autonomous agents, tools integration, reasoning frameworks, and multi-agent workflows
Develop production-grade AI components using strong engineering principles: modularity, maintainability, observability, and testing
Optimize models for performance, latency, and cost using techniques like quantization, distillation, and retrieval augmentation
Design scalable, secure, and compliant AI solutions aligned with enterprise engineering standards
Ensure adherence to best practices in software development, version control, CI/CD, containerization, and LLMOps/MLOps
Lead development of applications using LLMs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, etc.)
Build RAG pipelines, vector-based retrieval systems, and knowledge grounding solutions
Create autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents capable of task execution, planning, and reasoning
Drive experimentation with new GenAI techniques—prompt engineering, tool use, function calling, fine-tuning, and model fine-tuning
Evaluate emerging frameworks: LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, etc
Lead a team of AI engineers and developers; provide mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance
Translate business requirements into technical actionable engineering plans
Partner with product teams to define AI capabilities, roadmaps, and delivery milestones
Evangelize AI best practices and contribute to AI governance, ethics, and responsible AI frameworks
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software engineering experience; 3+ years in applied AI/ML engineering
Strong proficiency in Python, AI frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), and API-driven development
Hands-on expertise with GenAI, LLM orchestration frameworks, RAG pipelines, and vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS, Azure AI Search)
Experience developing Agentic AI using tools/functions integration, planning agents, workflows, or multi agent systems
Deep understanding of cloud platforms: Preferably Azure, including ML Ops and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Solid understanding of system design, distributed computing, microservices, and API architecture
Preferred
Experience fine tuning LLMs
Knowledge of multimodal models (vision, speech, text)
Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and open source models (Llama, Mistral, Gemma)
Practical knowledge of model evaluation metrics, safety guardrails, prompt optimization, and responsible AI
Background in Insurance is a plus
Company
Centraprise
Centraprise is an executive search and direct hire company.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Praveen Mummaneni
Chief Executive Officer
Anand Bandarupally
Managing Partner - Developing Recruitment and Business Development
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