AI Technical Lead

About Sayari: Sayari is the transparency company providing the public and private sectors with immediate visibility into complex commercial relationships by delivering the largest commercially available collection of corporate and trade data as a dynamic model of global ownership and trade activity. Sayari’s solutions harness this model to enable risk resilience, complex investigations, and clear-eyed business decisions. Sayari is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and its solutions are used by thousands of frontline analysts in over 35 countries.
Our company culture is defined by a dedication to our mission of using open data to enhance visibility into global commercial and financial networks, a passion for finding novel approaches to complex problems, and an understanding that diverse perspectives create optimal outcomes. We embrace cross-team collaboration, encourage training and learning opportunities, and reward initiative and innovation. If you like working with supportive, high-performing, and curious teams, Sayari is the place for you.
POSITION DESCRIPTIONAs an AI Engineer, Technical Lead  you will play a key role in defining and building out Sayari’s  AI-enhanced products capabilities.  We have ideas and opportunities across our product line for agentic AI . This role will research and prototype capabilities with successful innovations moving to productization. You will work closely with engineering teams in that productization.  A key aspect of this role is to stay current and to have sufficient resources for innovation. At Sayari, you will have both. With a customer-centric mindset, you will interact directly with senior leaders, engineers on other teams, designers, and product management to help drive use of Gen AI in our solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Proof of Concept (POC) Development: Develop POCs to validate and highlight the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed AI solutions. Collaborate with development teams to implement and iterate on POCs, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and expectations.
• Solution Implementation and Deployment: Oversee the implementation and deployment of AI solutions, working closely with development teams to ensure adherence to best practices, quality standards, and performance requirements. Provide technical guidance and support during the implementation phase.
• Solution Optimization and Performance: Continuously monitor, Control model drift, and optimize the performance of AI solutions, including foundational models and large language models. Identify opportunities to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and speed through fine-tuning, algorithmic improvements, or infrastructure optimization.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 1+ years  experience with Generative AI models and techniques, such as LLMs, fine-tuning, RAG, prompt engineering, guardrails, distillation, and agent frameworks.
• Experience with GenAI frameworks such as LangChain
• 4+ years  in python and JVM programming language (e.g. Scala, other)
• 4+ years in persistence technologies: SQL, Databricks, Snowflake, Elastic,  BigQuery, Graph
• 2+ years in ETL pipeline technologies: Airflow, Spark
• 2+ years of relevant industry experience driving cutting-edge research into real world impact.
• Strong technical communicator who can convey complex topics to different audiences.
• B.S. in Computer Science, or a related field is preferred

Benefits: ·       100% fully paid medical, vision, and dental for employees and their dependents·       Generous time off; we observe all US federal holidays, close our office for a winter break (12/24-12/31), in addition to granting 18 PTO days and 10 sick days ·       Outstanding compensation package; competitive commissions for revenue roles and quarterly bonuses for non-revenue positions·       A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion·       Eligibility to participate in additional benefits such as 401k match up to 5%, 100% paid life insurance (up to $100,000 coverage),, and parental leave·       A collaborative and positive culture - your team will be as smart and driven as you·       Limitless growth and learning opportunities Sayari is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply. We believe diversity and inclusion mean our team members should reflect the diversity of the United States. No employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status, genetics, or political affiliation. We strongly encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply.