[Hiring] Senior AI Engineer @International Data Group

Role Description

IDC is building the next generation of AI-powered intelligence platforms that transform how technology decisions get made. We are looking for a Senior AI/Agent Engineer to serve as the player-coach dev lead for the new Memory / Living Intel Pod.

• Lead a cross-functional pod of 4-8 engineers spanning AI/LLM and backend infrastructure disciplines.
• Set the technical direction for the pod's memory and proactive intelligence systems.
• Build memory capabilities that give the platform persistent, cross-session understanding of each user.
• Design proactive intelligence systems that monitor artifacts for changes, summarize what matters, and route alerts to the right channel.
• Integrate with the AI agent pipeline and channel adapters built by adjacent teams.
• Define interfaces and contracts with adjacent teams.
• Write production code. This role involves coding more than 50% of the time.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional Python development experience.
• Proven experience building LLM-powered systems in production environments.
• Player-coach track record leading teams of 4-8 engineers while remaining a significant code contributor.
• Experience leading across disciplines, bridging AI/LLM engineering and infrastructure engineering.
• Strong background in asynchronous system design: background jobs, event-driven patterns, scheduled processing.
• Quality-minded approach to system design and code.
• Comfort with ambiguity and building from scratch.

Requirements

• Experience building systems that maintain or evolve user context and state over time.
• Familiarity with semantic search, embeddings, and vector databases (e.g., Snowflake Cortex, Pinecone, Weaviate).
• Background in event-driven architectures, job scheduling, and change detection patterns.
• Experience with LLM observability tools (e.g., Langfuse, LangSmith, Weights & Biases).
• Track record of standing up new teams from zero.

Benefits

• 15 vacation days per year (increases with tenure; carryover allowed).
• 10 paid sick days per year.
• 1 week paid new parenting leave.
• Flexible work options (remote, part-time, flexible hours).
• Health, dental, vision, and paramedical coverage for you and your family.
• $1,600 annual healthcare spending account.
• Employee Assistance Program for counseling and support.
• Best Doctors medical second opinions.
• Life, AD&D, and long-term disability insurance.
• Retirement savings plan with company match (up to 4% of salary).
• $75/month technology allowance for home office or phone expenses.
• Company-paid cell phone plan.