AI Team Lead - Zafran

Experience leading engineers in an AI, infrastructure, or backend team. Strong hands-on software engineering and system design skills. Production experience building AI-powered applications or infrastructure around large language models. Experience with model APIs, retrieval, evaluation, prompt and context management, tool use, and agentic workflows. Ability to design systems that are reliable, scalable, secure, observable, and cost-efficient. Strong product thinking and the ability to turn broad AI opportunities into practical capabilities. Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication skills. Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment where the team and technical foundations are still being shaped.

Build and lead Zafran’s AI dedicated team from the ground up. Define, implement and maintain the company-wide AI platform, infrastructure, and developer tools. Enable R&D teams to build, test, deploy, and monitor AI-powered capabilities independently. Lead the design and delivery of shared AI experiences and services across the company. Establish standards for quality, reliability, security, observability, and cost management. Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Security Research, and other teams to identify high-impact opportunities and turn them into scalable solutions. Stay hands-on with architecture, implementation, production issues, and technical decisions. Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar for AI development across R&D.

Experience leading engineers in an AI, infrastructure, or backend team. Strong hands-on software engineering and system design skills. Production experience building AI-powered applications or infrastructure around large language models. Experience with model APIs, retrieval, evaluation, prompt and context management, tool use, and agentic workflows. Ability to design systems that are reliable, scalable, secure, observable, and cost-efficient. Strong product thinking and the ability to turn broad AI opportunities into practical capabilities. Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication skills. Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment where the team and technical foundations are still being shaped.