Lead AI Engineer

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EmpiricalSoftware engineering
Latin America (Remote), Enough timezone overlap for daily collaboration with a U.S.-based engineering team.Full-TimeLead
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Languages
Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken).
Experience
10+ years in software engineering
Required Skills
Microsoft AzureCI/CDSoftware Engineering

Requirements

  • Have 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Bring deep CI/CD and platform experience, including building pipelines other engineers depend on.
  • Demonstrate strong hands-on engineering ability and be able to read and assess code.
  • Apply security principles including least privilege, credential scope, blast radius, and handling untrusted input.
  • Use sound testing judgment, including evaluating test-suite reliability and measuring flake rates.
  • Have hands-on experience using coding agents on real work and a clear understanding of their strengths and failure modes.
  • Be comfortable working across functions with SRE, security, legal, and support teams.
  • Be willing and able to write conventions, procedures, incident records, and rationales for rules.
  • Have excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
  • Be based in Latin America and have enough timezone overlap for daily collaboration with a U.S.-based engineering team.
  • Nice to have: experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Nice to have: familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID and identity and access management.
  • Nice to have: experience building integrations with Microsoft Outlook and other Microsoft 365 services.

Responsibilities

  • Own project conventions, reusable agent procedures, source indexing, and their enforcement.
  • Build verification gates that inspect artifacts and protect tests and CI configuration.
  • Design least-privilege, short-lived agent credentials and commit attribution linking people, agents, and tasks.
  • Calibrate autonomy tiers according to reversibility and incident history.
  • Engineer circuit breakers, workflow limits, progressive exposure, and rollback.
  • Own request intake, deduplication, routing, gate logs, and an evaluation harness.
  • Maintain dated incident records, set thresholds for turning patterns into rules, and review the cost and effectiveness of each rule.
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