Sr. Lead Ai Engineer

Klaviyo

Palo Alto, CA, United States
On-site
Define and improve engineering architecture for ai capabilities
Build and harden ai serving systems
Evolve agentic architecture
As a Sr. Lead AI Engineer, you’ll be the technical leader for a set of high-impact AI services and agentic systems, owning architecture and execution for complex, distributed backend systems

Job Summary

  • As a Sr. Lead AI Engineer, you’ll be the technical leader for a set of high-impact AI services and agentic systems, owning architecture and execution for complex, distributed backend systems.
  • You will define and improve the engineering architecture for Service and Marketing AI capabilities, leading the design of scalable, low-latency backend systems and APIs.
  • This is a hands-on tech lead role, not a people-manager role, focused on turning AI ideas into reliable, scalable production capabilities.

Matching Summary

As a Sr. Lead AI Engineer, you’ll be the technical leader for a set of high-impact AI services and agentic systems, owning architecture and execution for complex, distributed backend systems.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Define and improve engineering architecture for AI capabilities
  • Build and harden AI serving systems
  • Evolve agentic architecture
  • Set engineering standards for AI services
  • Lead cross-team technical work
  • Measure what matters for AI systems

Nice-to-have

  • Shape local engineering rituals
  • Help with hiring and onboarding
  • Create healthy patterns for cross-hub collaboration

Key Requirements

  • ~8+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Hands-on with generative & agentic AI in production
  • Deep experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong Python and data tooling fluency
  • Production-grade cloud experience (AWS, Kubernetes)
  • Evaluation and quality-obsessed for AI systems

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