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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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