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Technical Lead, IT/Tech, AI Engineer
Optix
Vancouver · Hybrid Full-time Lead Today
About the role
About Optix
Optix is seeking
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years building production AI features that customers actually paid for (not just prototypes)
- Proven experience at a SaaS company, navigating ambiguity and establishing AI best practices
- Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals
- Deep hands-on expertise with AI APIs, prompt engineering, RAG implementation, and evaluation frameworks
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving adoption of new technical practices across a team
- Demonstrated ability to make architectural decisions that balance innovation with pragmatism
- You can clearly articulate when not to use AI and how to evaluate whether AI features are actually working
- Production experience integrating LLMs into existing application architectures
- Knowledge of AI frameworks like Lang Chain, Pydantic, Llama Index for building reliable AI features
- Deep understanding of prompt engineering, context management, and structured output for business applications
- Experience with model evaluation, A/B testing, performance monitoring, and quality assurance for AI features
- Knowledge of when to use RAG vs fine-tuning vs prompt engineering
Responsibilities
- Partner with our Head of Product to translate business objectives into technical AI solutions and architectural decisions
- Establish evaluation frameworks and quality standards for AI feature development
- Mentor our engineering team, building their AI capability and driving adoption of AI-first development practices
- Guide technical decisions on model selection, integration patterns, and system architecture
- Design and build AI-powered features including intelligent sales widgets, automated message generation, and predictive workflow optimization
- Architect scalable AI systems that integrate seamlessly with our existing automations platform
- Implement monitoring and evaluation infrastructure to continuously improve AI feature performance
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI across our platform for maximum customer impact
Benefits
health coveragedental coveragestock optionspersonal growth opportunitiesprofessional growth opportunities
Skills
AWSGCPLang ChainLLMsLlama IndexMySQLPHPPydanticRAGReact
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