AI Engineering Team Lead - software engineering background

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on AI Engineering Team Lead to help build and scale enterprise AI products used by real business users.

This is a technical leadership position for someone who enjoys both building production AI systems and leading engineers . You'll work closely with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions while remaining actively involved in architecture, coding, code reviews and technical decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and deployment of production AI applications and AI agent solutions
• Mentor and support a team of AI and software engineers
• Drive architecture decisions across AI platforms, agent orchestration and workflow automation
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Establish engineering standards, best practices and delivery processes
• Oversee solution delivery from discovery and design through deployment and production support
• Contribute hands-on to coding, troubleshooting and architectural reviews

Requirements

• 8-15 years of software engineering experience -( 15 years Max)
• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams
• Recent hands-on experience building and deploying production AI solutions
• Strong understanding of AI agents, agent orchestration and enterprise AI architectures
• Experience with technologies such as:
• LangGraph
• MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Tool Calling / Function Calling
• LLM Evaluation and Guardrails
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience in:
• Python
• FastAPI
• TypeScript / Node.js
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience deploying solutions used by real business users in production environments
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

What's Important

We're looking for a builder first .

The ideal candidate has personally designed and built AI solutions, understands production challenges, enjoys solving complex problems, and can provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on.

If you've successfully taken AI applications from concept to production and enjoy helping engineers grow, we'd love to hear from you. DM sandy.yeung@ambition.com.hk