Lead AI Engineer

Egen is hiring a Lead AI Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $159k-$230k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Egen.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this AI engineer role Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions Google Cloud, LLMs and RAG Pipelines among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
Egen has 21 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Lead the development of generative AI initiatives, document intelligence, and RAG pipelines from prototype to production.

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About Egen: Egen is a fast-growing and entrepreneurial company with a data-first mindset. We bring together the best engineering talent working with the most advanced technology platforms, including Google Cloud and Salesforce, to help clients drive action and impact through data and insights. We are committed to being a place where the best people choose to work so they can apply their engineering and technology expertise to envision what is next for how data and platforms can change the world for the better. We are dedicated to learning, thrive on solving tough problems, and continually innovate to achieve fast, effective results. If this describes you, we want you on our team. Want to learn more about life at Egen? Check out these resources in addition to the job description. Meet Egen Life at Egen Culture and Values at Egen Career Development at Egen Benefits at Egen About the opportunity:

As a Lead AI Engineer, you will be at the forefront of our Generative AI initiatives. We treat AI as a software engineering discipline. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our AI features—specifically document intelligence and RAG pipelines—taking them from initial prototype to robust, scalable production services. You will solve for real-world constraints like latency, error handling, and cost optimization.

You’ll collaborate with a diverse range of clients to translate business needs into high-performance AI architectures. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise in LLMs and a disciplined Software Engineering approach to ensure our solutions are robust, ethical, and scalable.

How we rate this

Lead AI Engineer at Egen rates 95 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Lead AI Engineer is an open job at Egen.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The listed salary is $159k-$230k a year.
The role is based in Remote and is marked remote.
The job was posted on July 29, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Egen. Apply on Egen

Prepare for this job

Built from this posting and from similar jobs on Level.

Skills and AI tools this role asks for

RAGPythonMachine learningSoftware EngineeringGenerative AIGoogle CloudLLMsRAG Pipelines

Also common in AI engineer jobs at this level

Python Machine learning AI agents AWS Azure PyTorch

Pay

This job starts at: $159k
Typical AI engineer job: $185k

This posting starts 14% below the typical AI engineer job. See AI engineer jobs

Questions you could be asked

How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
Tell me about a project where python was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where machine learning was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where software engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where generative ai was part of your work. What did you do?

Adapt your resume

List these exact terms on your resume: RAG, Python, Machine learning, Software Engineering, and Generative AI. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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