AI Engineer / Technical Development Lead

Englewood, CO, US • Posted 3 hours ago • Updated 53 minutes ago
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Skills

  • Team Leadership
  • DTC
  • Leadership
  • Research
  • Prototyping
  • IT Strategy
  • Product Engineering
  • Technical Drafting
  • Documentation
  • IT Management
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Workflow
  • Data Science
  • Mentorship
  • Communication
  • Presentations
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Evaluation
  • Deep Learning
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Machine Learning Operations (ML Ops)
  • Vertex
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Amazon SageMaker
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Data Engineering
  • Apache Spark
  • Data Validation
  • Software Engineering
  • Python
  • API
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Microservices

Summary

AI Engineer / Technical Development Lead

(LLMs, ML, MLOps, Team Leadership)

Role: Contract to Hire (H1 Visa will be considered)

Location: Onsite - DTC (Denver Tech Center) 4 days a week

Experience: Senior / Lead Level

About the Role

We are looking for a highly experienced AI Engineer / Technical Lead to guide the development and deployment of advanced AI solutions across our product ecosystem. This person will combine deep hands-on technical expertise with strong leadership instincts-someone who can architect solutions, mentor engineers, drive technical strategy, and consistently ship high-quality production systems.

You will lead initiatives that include LLM fine-tuning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agent-based workflows, and full ML lifecycle ownership, ensuring that models are reliable, scalable, and impactful. If you're passionate about building real, production-ready AI systems, not research prototypes and want to help shape the next generation of intelligent applications, this is the perfect role.

What You'll Do
  • Lead and mentor AI/ML engineers while shaping technical strategy and best practices
  • Architect, build, and deploy LLM- and ML-powered systems into production
  • Develop and optimize RAG pipelines, evaluation strategies, and agentic workflows
  • Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Data, Ops) to deliver business impact
  • Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, technical design, documentation, and guidance
  • Build reliable, scalable, and responsible AI systems that meet enterprise-grade standards


What We're Looking For
  • 8+ years of engineering or technical leadership experience
  • 2+ years of hands-on LLM experience (fine-tuning, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic workflows)
  • 5+ years of ML/Data Science background with real production deployments
  • Proven ability to mentor engineers, build strong teams, and lead architectural decisions
  • Excellent communication skills and comfort presenting to technical + non-technical stakeholders


Key Technical Skills
  • LLMs & GenAI: Fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), embeddings, RAG, evaluation, prompt strategy, agent frameworks
  • ML Engineering: Deep learning (PyTorch/TensorFlow), classical ML, feature engineering, model monitoring
  • MLOps: MLflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, Sagemaker, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, observability tooling
  • Data Engineering: Airflow/Prefect, Spark/Ray, data validation and pipelines, vector stores
  • Software Engineering: Python expertise, API design, cloud architecture, microservices
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  • Dice Id: unison
  • Position Id: 6740
  • Posted 3 hours ago

Company Info

About Unison Systems, Inc

Founded in 1997 by current President, Lukas Hurst, Unison Systems is a professional services firm providing IT solutions and staffing for a growing client base of Fortune 1000 and mid-market companies. We have a successful track record of helping clients to align and optimize IT resources with business objectives. 

At Unison, we understand that each client initiative is different, and must be approached as a partnership with its unique objectives in mind when identifying appropriate resources or creating a successful project plan. 

Our top priority is to carefully listen to, and analyze, our clients'​ needs first and foremost, so that we can work with you to put the best solution in place the first time, to produce immediate, consistent, high-performance and high-value results. 

Since 2007, Unison Systems has been recognized locally, by the Denver Business Journal, as one of the fastest growing IT Services firms in the Denver Metro Area. Since 2009, Unison has ranked on the Inc. 500/5000 list of the fastest growing companies in America.

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