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

Senior Lead – AI Engineering (LangGraph / Haystack / RAG Systems) Location: US (Remote / Hybrid) Experience: 8–12 Years Department: AI & Data Engineering Reports To: Director – AI & Platform Engineering About Codvo.ai At Codvo.ai, we are building NeIO — an AI-native enterprise platform powering intelligent operations across industries like Oil & 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. Role Overview 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. This role combines technical leadership, hands-on development, and system design — ensuring every AI service meets enterprise-grade standards of performance, reliability, and governance. Key Responsibilities Architect & Lead: Design and oversee RAG pipelines using LangGraph, Haystack, LangChain, and OpenAI APIs for NeIO applications. Mentor & Guide: Manage a team of 3–5 AI engineers; perform code reviews, pair programming, and architecture reviews. Build & Integrate: Develop FastAPI-based microservices and vectorized retrieval layers (Qdrant, FAISS, Pinecone). Optimize & Scale: Tune embedding quality, latency, and retrieval precision across multi-tenant data lakes. Collaborate with Data & GIS Teams: Integrate structured and spatial data using PostGIS, QGIS, GeoPandas. Implement Governance: Establish model observability, explainability metrics, and audit trails. Drive Delivery: Translate business workflows (e.g., LeaseOps, Recon) into AI automation pipelines with measurable ROI. Evangelize Open Source AI: Advocate for enterprise-grade, open-source-first design principles. Core Skills & Experience Category Required Expertise AI / NLP Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, Haystack, OpenAI APIs RAG / Agents LangGraph, LangChain, retrieval orchestration, context window optimization Vector Databases Qdrant, FAISS, Pinecone, or Weaviate Backend Engineering FastAPI, RESTful API design, async Python Data Processing Pandas, DuckDB, PySpark, Airbyte (preferred) Geospatial (Bonus) QGIS, PostGIS, GeoPandas MLOps (Preferred) MLflow, DVC, Docker, Kubernetes Version Control Git, GitHub Actions, CI/CD automation Who You Are Passionate about building AI systems that move from prototype to production. Experienced in open-source frameworks and eager to extend them for enterprise readiness. Strong in data modeling, ontology design, and prompt engineering. Collaborative, detail-oriented, and comfortable leading agile, cross-functional teams. Excited to turn complex real-world data — maps, leases, documents — into actionable intelligence. Why Join Codvo.ai Build on the NeIO platform, a rapidly evolving enterprise AI stack. Lead real-world agentic AI systems for billion-dollar industries. Collaborate with a global team of AI researchers, domain SMEs, and engineers. Competitive compensation with performance-linked RSUs. Flexible, innovation-driven environment with direct impact on product evolution.