Software Technical Lead

About the role We're looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to drive the design and delivery of our AI systems. This is a builder's role: you architect solutions and stay in the codebase. You'll set the technical direction, raise the engineering bar, and take AI capabilities from concept to production.What you'll ownArchitect end-to-end AI/ML systems — data pipelines, model integration, orchestration, and evaluation.Write and review production code; lead by doing, not just directing.Translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical designs.Lead design reviews, set coding and architecture standards, and mentor engineers.Make build-vs-buy and model-selection decisions, owning the trade-offs.Ensure systems are reliable, cost-efficient, and production-grade — not demos.What you must bring5–10 years building production software, with recent hands-on AI/ML delivery.Experience shipping real machine-learning or LLM systems to production users.Strong software engineering fundamentals: Python or Node.js, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure.Solid system design — you can justify architecture trade-offs, not just diagram them.Proven ability to lead small teams and deliver end-to-end with limited direction.Strong plusExperience with LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, evals, or agentic frameworks.Cloud platform depth (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and MLOps practices.Vector databases, data engineering, or model fine-tuning experience.Domain experience relevant to our product.Not a fit if youAre a manager who no longer writes code.Have only built proofs-of-concept or notebooks, never production systems.Need fully defined specs and a large team before you can deliver.Why join Backed by the Google Startup program. Neural Roots has helped its customers adopt AI solutions in a phased and outcome-driven approach. You will own the technical foundation of a growing AI product, work on real problems with real users, and shape the standards the next engineers inherit.