Lead AI Engineer

WE ARE HIRING: Lead AI Engineer Location: Remote (Sri Lanka) Employment Type: Full Time Industry: Artificial Intelligence / Analytics Platform / SaaS Technology Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Lead AI Engineer to drive the technical direction of a cutting-edge AI-powered analytics platform that enables business users to gain insights from enterprise data through natural language queries. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for designing and developing the AI core, agent architecture, knowledge systems, evaluation frameworks, and predictive intelligence capabilities that power enterprise-grade AI solutions. Key Responsibilities Build and enhance the agent runtime and orchestration framework for complex multi-step business analysis. Design systems that plan investigations, execute parallel queries, coordinate specialized AI agents, and generate actionable insights. Own natural language to SQL and DAX query generation capabilities across enterprise data environments. Develop deterministic query generation patterns and governed metric layers to ensure accuracy and reliability. Design and maintain ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, and retrieval systems that power AI reasoning. Develop anomaly detection, clustering, forecasting, and recommendation capabilities to proactively deliver business insights. Optimize AI systems for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and responsiveness. Implement model tiering, prompt optimization, caching strategies, streaming responses, and parallel processing techniques. Develop evaluation frameworks, testing processes, release gates, and experimentation methodologies for AI systems. Ensure AI security through row-level access controls, prompt injection defenses, schema pruning, and tool governance. Support rapid onboarding of new business domains through configurable AI frameworks. Provide technical leadership while remaining actively involved in hands-on engineering and problem solving. Candidate P