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This role combines hands-on delivery of AI, GenAI, Agentic AI, and AI-native engineering solutions with practice development, presales support, mentoring, research, and AI SDLC enablement. The successful candidate will act as a technical leader on client projects while helping strengthen the company’s internal AI capabilities, delivery standards, reusable assets, engineering practices, and AI delivery methodologies.\n\nThe role is expected to be split approximately as follows:\n\n— 50% Project Delivery — leading the design and implementation of AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI solutions for clients.\n\n— 50% AI CoE Contribution — supporting presales, capability development, AI SDLC initiatives, mentoring, workshops, internal accelerators, and R&D.\n\nRequired for this role\n\nExperience:\n\n5+ years of commercial software engineering experience with substantial hands-on coding responsibilities.\n\n3+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and delivering AI, Machine Learning, or Generative AI solutions in production environments.\n\nExperience leading technical teams or acting as a Technical Lead on client-facing projects.\n\nProven experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and communicating effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.\n\nAI & GenAI Expertise:\n\nDeep practical experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), embeddings, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, prompt engineering, and model evaluation.\n\nProven experience designing and deploying complex AI systems involving agent orchestration, multi-agent architectures, coding agents, and AI-native engineering workflows.\n\nHands-on experience with modern AI assistants and coding agents such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, or similar platforms.\n\nExperience building AI-powered development accelerators and automation frameworks, including prompt management, context engineering, tool integration, skills, agents, feedback loops, and AI SDLC workflows.\n\nStrong understanding of emerging AI engineering practices, model capabilities and limitations, evaluation methodologies, and responsible AI principles.\n\nSoftware Engineering & Architecture:\n\nStrong software engineering foundation, including software architecture, clean code principles, automated testing, source control, DevOps, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.\n\nProven experience designing scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable AI-powered systems for production environments.\n\nAbility to incorporate governance, observability, security, and operational considerations into AI solution architectures.\n\nLeadership & Professional Skills:\n\nStrong leadership, mentoring, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.\n\nAbility to drive technical decisions, establish engineering best practices, and guide teams through AI solution delivery.\n\nAbility to manage multiple initiatives, adapt quickly to changing priorities, and effectively switch contexts in a fast-paced environment.\n\nStrong written and verbal English communication skills.\n\nNice to Have:\n\nExperience in presales, solution consulting, proposal preparation, technical workshops, solution estimation, and client-facing architecture discussions.\n\nExperience defining and implementing AI engineering standards, AI SDLC practices, or AI transformation initiatives within engineering organizations.\n\nAnthropic Solution Architect Foundational certification or other recognized AI, cloud, or platform certifications.\n\nExperience with enterprise AI governance, AI observability, AI evaluation frameworks, and agent operations (AgentOps).\n\nYour responsibilities\n\nProject Delivery and Technical Leadership:\n\nLead the design and delivery of AI, ML, GenAI, and Agentic AI solutions for client projects.\n\nAct as a technical lead for AI agents, copilots, AI-powered workflows, and AI-enabled engineering initiatives.\n\nDefine solution architecture, technical approach, implementation standards, and delivery plans.\n\nGuide engineering teams on model integration, retrieval-based solutions, agent workflows, evaluation, monitoring, and deployment.\n\nLead projects using modern AI-native engineering methodologies, including Specification-Driven Development (SDD), to improve delivery speed, quality, traceability, governance, and engineering productivity.\n\nTranslate business requirements into structured specifications, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans that can be consumed by both engineering teams and AI agents.\n\nReview technical designs, architecture decisions, code quality, delivery risks, and AI governance considerations.\n\nCollaborate with client stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, architects, engineers, and QA teams.\n\nPresales and Client Engagement:\n\nSupport discovery calls, technical workshops, and client consultations.\n\nPrepare solution concepts, technical proposals, estimates, and delivery approaches.\n\nContribute to statements of work, proof-of-concept planning, and architecture documentation.\n\nSupport sales and account teams with technical expertise during presales activities.\n\nAI SDLC and Practice Development:\n\nHelp define and improve company practices for applying AI across the software delivery lifecycle.\n\nContribute to defining and evolving company standards for AI-native software delivery and Specification-Driven Development.\n\nCreate practical approaches for using AI in discovery, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and support.\n\nDevelop reusable specification templates, evaluation plans, agent instructions, and delivery playbooks.\n\nContribute to internal frameworks for coding agents, AI evaluations, quality gates, responsible AI delivery, and AI governance.\n\nSupport the development of repeatable delivery models for AI and GenAI projects.\n\nMentoring, Enablement, and Community Leadership:\n\nMentor engineers, tech leads, and delivery teams in AI, GenAI, Agentic AI, AI SDLC, and SDD practices.\n\nConduct internal and client-facing workshops on AI-first engineering and AI-enabled software delivery.\n\nSupport knowledge sharing and capability growth across the organization.\n\nParticipate in technical interviews and hiring activities.\n\nResearch and Innovation:\n\nLead R&D initiatives in GenAI, AI agents, AI SDLC, and AI-assisted software delivery.\n\nExplore new tools, frameworks, cloud services, and delivery practices.\n\nBuild prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate new ideas.\n\nDevelop reusable accelerators, frameworks, demos, and delivery assets.\n\nWhat you get\n\nYour time off\n\n18 paid vacation days and 10 paid sick days annually\n\n10 Ukrainian public holidays\n\nMaternity and paternity leaves\n\nMarriage and Parenthood Package\n\nAdditional leave for major life events\n\nSabbatical leave opportunities\n\nLearning & growth\n\nSombra University workshops and internal learning programs\n\nTech Communities and knowledge sharing sessions\n\nLanguage courses and workshops\n\nMentorship opportunities\n\nHealth & well-being\n\nSports compensation or health insurance coverage\n\nParticipation in races 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