PwC

Lead AI Engineer

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2 months ago
Bucharest, RomaniaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the 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.
  • Collaborate with architects and MLOps to harden solutions for production.
  • Implement orchestration patterns involving state, memory, checkpoints, tool calling, hand-offs, retries, idempotency, human approval, and long-running workflows.
  • Integrate agents with enterprise systems through APIs, events, queues, databases, and MCP-compatible tools or servers.
  • Support proposals, client workshops, market development, reusable assets, and the practice’s continuous learning agenda.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in software, data, or machine-learning engineering, including hands-on AI delivery.
  • Strong Python and API engineering skills with production experience using modern agent or LLM frameworks.
  • Experience with retrieval, embeddings, vector stores, model evaluation, and distributed systems.
  • Experience leading agile engineering teams while remaining hands-on.
  • Advanced experience with RAG, structured outputs, prompt and context engineering, vector or hybrid retrieval, reranking, knowledge graphs, and retrieval evaluation.
  • Experience with automated evaluation and observability for quality, trajectory, latency, token use, and cost.
  • Strong software-engineering discipline involving testing, type checking, code review, dependency management, secure coding, CI/CD, and containerized deployment.
  • Ability to uphold quality, independence, confidentiality, and risk-management requirements.

Tech Stack

GraphQLMLflowpytestPython

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About PwC

10,000+ employees

PwC is a global network of professional services firms providing assurance, tax, and advisory work for businesses and public-sector clients. It sells project-based and managed consulting, audit, and deals services, and implements and integrates business applications. Formed in 1998 by the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, it is headquartered in London and is one of the Big Four accounting firms.

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