Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blue Signal is an award-winning executive search firm specializing in various specialties and placing top-tier talent across industry verticals. The company is seeking a hands-on Lead AI Engineer to identify operational challenges and build, launch, monitor, and continuously improve production-ready internal software and AI solutions.
Responsibilities
- Build and launch AI-enabled internal products that reduce friction in everyday business processes
- Take internal opportunities from discovery through architecture, implementation, release, monitoring, and continuous improvement
- Partner with teams across the organization to turn operational challenges into useful technical products
- Create reliable automations, integrations, and intelligent workflows that connect systems, data, and business processes
- Apply sound engineering judgment to ambiguous problems while balancing delivery speed, maintainability, reliability, and business value
- Contribute directly to backend, full-stack, or platform code while maintaining a strong standard for production quality
- Collaborate effectively with technical stakeholders and business partners, clearly communicating tradeoffs and shaping practical solutions
- Operate with significant autonomy in a fast-moving environment where priorities and requirements can evolve
- Evaluate solutions after release, learn from usage and performance, and iterate to increase their effectiveness
- Help establish practical engineering patterns for an expanding portfolio of internal AI systems
Skills
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience in backend, full-stack, or platform development, supported by solid programming fundamentals
- A track record of personally building and shipping production software, AI applications, or automation systems
- Demonstrated ownership across the software lifecycle, including problem definition, design, development, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Strong independent problem-solving skills with the ability to create structure around unclear or changing requirements
- A product-minded approach to internal systems, including the ability to understand business needs and translate them into practical technical solutions
- Clear communication skills and comfort collaborating directly with both technical and non-technical colleagues
- The autonomy and adaptability to succeed in a fast-paced, startup-style environment
- Experience with APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, system integrations, or AI-enabled services is valuable
- Sound judgment around reliability, maintainability, monitoring, and production support
- An interest in applying AI where it creates meaningful operational value and solves real business problems
- A background in building technology solutions that streamline processes, increase efficiency, or enhance internal tools
Benefits
- Remote, nationwide work arrangement
- A highly autonomous engineering role with ownership from problem discovery through production.
- The opportunity to build AI-enabled tools that directly improve how teams work and make decisions.
- Broad exposure to business functions and technical challenges rather than a narrowly defined product area.
- A hands-on environment where strong engineers can move quickly from an idea to a working solution.
- The ability to influence the technical direction and engineering practices behind a growing internal technology ecosystem.
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