Lead AI Engineer
PwC Canada — Bucharest
Posted 2026-09-23
Job Description & Summary The opportunity Provide hands-on engineering leadership for agentic AI products, define implementation patterns and ensure technical quality from prototype through production. What you will be doing · Lead technical design and implementation of agents, RAG services, tool integrations and model orchestration. · Establish coding, testing, evaluation, review and documentation standards. · Decompose architecture into engineering work and guide estimation and sprint planning. · Coach engineers, review code and resolve complex technical problems. · Design evaluation suites for quality, safety, reliability, latency and cost. · Work with architects and MLOps to harden solutions for production. What we need from you · 6+ years in software, data or machine-learning engineering, including hands-on AI delivery. · Strong Python and API engineering capability and experience with modern agent or LLM frameworks. · Experience with retrieval, embeddings, vector stores, model evaluation and distributed systems. · Ability to lead agile engineering teams while remaining hands-on. Relevant AI technologies and tooling · Strong hands-on expertise in Python and API engineering, wi