Lead Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer

Leads AI/ML engineering teams across platform and delivery pods, managing employees and contractors while enforcing code, agent, review, and production-readiness standards. Partners on reusable templates, pipelines, and evaluation processes, ensures adoption across teams, manages contractor performance and conversion, and removes delivery blockers. The role requires hands-on credibility reviewing agent architectures, prompts, and evaluation suites, with experience operating as a player-coach in fast-moving organizations., As a Lead Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow., * Manage engineers across the central platform team and delivery pods (mix of contractors and internal engineers)

• Own engineering standards: code and agent quality, review practices, definition of done, production readiness
• Own contractor performance and the conversion pipeline with the sourcing partner
• Partner with the platform lead on the paved path - templates, pipeline, evals - and make every pod use it
• Unblock delivery daily; keep pods shipping without becoming a gatekeeper, * Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: Healthcare, Basic Life Insurance, Short and Long-term disability insurance according to the Company’s Benefit Plans

• 8+ years engineering, 3+ managing engineers who ship AI/ML or LLM systems in production
• Has managed blended teams (contractors + employees) and held a quality bar across them
• Hands-on enough to review agent architectures, prompts, and eval suites credibly
• Operates in a flat, fast structure - player-coach comfortable, empire-averse

Nice to have

• Healthcare or regulated-industry delivery; experience scaling a team from <10 to 30+

Ciklum is looking for a Lead Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer to join our team full-time in the US .

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.