Job Summary:
SKIMS is a solutions-oriented brand creating the next generation of underwear, loungewear, shapewear, and essentials. They are seeking a talented Lead AI Engineer to define, design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions that drive meaningful business outcomes while providing technical leadership and mentoring for AI initiatives.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the architecture, design, development, and deployment of scalable AI applications and agentic workflows using Python and modern AI frameworks.
• Drive technical strategy and best practices for building reliable, secure, and high-performance AI solutions that support critical business operations and growth initiatives
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into AI-powered products and lead delivery from ideation through production
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering engineering excellence and continuous learning across AI initiatives
• Develop and maintain integrations with AWS Bedrock, enterprise systems, APIs, and cloud-native architectures
• Establish standards for model evaluation, cost optimization, monitoring, governance, and observability across AI systems
• Lead the design and implementation of multi-agent systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, or similar technologies
• Champion AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices to improve productivity, software quality, and delivery velocity
• Contribute to architecture reviews, technical roadmaps, documentation, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement initiatives
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with recent experience leading enterprise AI initiatives from concept through production.
• Proven experience leading the design, development, and deployment of enterprise AI solutions at scale, including large cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong understanding of LLM fundamentals, including model training concepts, fine-tuning, evaluation, RAG, and agentic workflows.
• Expert-level hands-on experience building AI applications using Python.
• Experience with Anthropic Claude models, Claude Code, and AI-assisted software development workflows.
• Experience deploying and managing models through AWS Bedrock.
• Familiarity with AI observability and evaluation platforms such as Langfuse.
• Experience building multi-agent systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, or similar technologies.
• Strong software engineering background with API development, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise systems (ERP, Oracle, Snowflake, internal APIs).
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate model performance, optimize costs, and establish AI governance and monitoring practices.
• Proven track record of identifying AI opportunities, delivering production-ready solutions, and driving adoption across business functions.
• Security-first mindset with experience designing AI solutions that meet enterprise requirements for security, privacy, governance, compliance, and auditability.
• Ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive alignment across multiple organizations.
• Passion for software craftsmanship, maintainable system design, testing, observability, and continuous improvement.
Company:
SKIMS provides a wide-ranging line of underwear, loungewear, and shapewear designed to deliver solutions for every body. It is a sub-organization of Skims. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Culver City, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.