(US) Senior Lead – AI Engineering (LangGraph / Haystack / RAG Systems) (Remote)

<p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Senior Lead – AI Engineering (LangGraph / Haystack / RAG Systems)</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Location: US (Remote / Hybrid)</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Experience: 8–12 Years</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Department: AI &amp; Data Engineering</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Reports To: Director – AI &amp; Platform Engineering</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>About Codvo.ai</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="line-height:normal;">At Codvo.ai, we are building NeIO — an AI-native enterprise platform powering intelligent operations across industries like Oil &amp; Gas, Mortgage, and Legal. NeIO fuses Data Engineering, AI Agents, and MLOps into production-ready, auditable systems that drive real business outcomes. You’ll lead a Fusion Team — blending data engineers, AI developers, and domain experts — to design scalable, explainable, and high-performance AI workflows that bring automation to life.</p><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Role Overview</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="line-height:normal;">As Senior Lead – AI Engineering, you will own the end-to-end architecture, delivery, and optimization of enterprise RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and agentic systems. You will lead a small team of AI engineers to build and deploy LangGraph, Haystack, and FastAPI-based pipelines that extract, enrich, and reason over unstructured data.<br><br>This role combines technical leadership, hands-on development, and system design — ensuring every AI service meets enterprise-grade standards of performance, reliability, and governance.</p><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><ul style="margin-top:0cm;" type="disc"><li style="line-height:normal;">Architect &amp; Lead: Design and oversee RAG pipelines using LangGraph, Haystack, LangChain, and OpenAI APIs for NeIO applications.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Mentor &amp; Guide: Manage a team of 3–5 AI engineers; perform code reviews, pair programming, and architecture reviews.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Build &amp; Integrate: Develop FastAPI-based microservices and vectorized retrieval layers (Qdrant, FAISS, Pinecone).</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Optimize &amp; Scale: Tune embedding quality, latency, and retrieval precision across multi-tenant data lakes.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Collaborate with Data &amp; GIS Teams: Integrate structured and spatial data using PostGIS, QGIS, GeoPandas.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Implement Governance: Establish model observability, explainability metrics, and audit trails.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Drive Delivery: Translate business workflows (e.g., LeaseOps, Recon) into AI automation pipelines with measurable ROI.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Evangelize Open Source AI: Advocate for enterprise-grade, open-source-first design principles.</li></ul><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Core Skills &amp; Experience</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;" width="0"><tbody><tr style="height:15.0pt;"><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Category</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p></td><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Required Expertise</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt;"><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">AI / NLP</p></td><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, Haystack, OpenAI APIs</p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt;"><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">RAG / Agents</p></td><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">LangGraph, LangChain, retrieval orchestration, context window optimization</p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt;"><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">Vector Databases</p></td><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">Qdrant, FAISS, Pinecone, or Weaviate</p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt;"><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">Backend Engineering</p></td><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">FastAPI, RESTful API design, async Python</p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt;"><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">Data Processing</p></td><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">Pandas, DuckDB, PySpark, Airbyte (preferred)</p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt;"><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">Geospatial (Bonus)</p></td><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">QGIS, PostGIS, GeoPandas</p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt;"><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">MLOps (Preferred)</p></td><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">MLflow, DVC, Docker, Kubernetes</p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt;"><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">Version Control</p></td><td style="width:216.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; height:15.0pt;" width="288"><p style="line-height:normal;">Git, GitHub Actions, CI/CD automation</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Who You Are</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><ul style="margin-top:0cm;" type="disc"><li style="line-height:normal;">Passionate about building AI systems that move from prototype to production.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Experienced in open-source frameworks and eager to extend them for enterprise readiness.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Strong in data modeling, ontology design, and prompt engineering.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Collaborative, detail-oriented, and comfortable leading agile, cross-functional teams.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Excited to turn complex real-world data — maps, leases, documents — into actionable intelligence.</li></ul><p style="line-height:normal;"><strong>Why Join Codvo.ai</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><ul style="margin-top:0cm;" type="disc"><li style="line-height:normal;">Build on the NeIO platform, a rapidly evolving enterprise AI stack.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Lead real-world agentic AI systems for billion-dollar industries.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Collaborate with a global team of AI researchers, domain SMEs, and engineers.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Competitive compensation with performance-linked RSUs.</li><li style="line-height:normal;">Flexible, innovation-driven environment with direct impact on product evolution.</li></ul><p style="line-height:normal;"><br></p><div><br></div>