Lead AI Engineer

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🕒 December 18, 2025

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 AI Engineer

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Very Big Things

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • SaaS

Very Big Things is a Generative AI Transformation Company that partners with ambitious leaders to integrate artificial intelligence into their products and processes. By providing elite talent, proven implementation expertise, and proprietary acceleration tools, they enable mid-market and enterprise businesses to adopt AI effectively and securely. Their focus on maximizing ROI through tailored AI solutions allows organizations to enhance operational efficiency and streamline valuable tasks, driving significant business transformations swiftly and effectively.

📋 Description

• Design and build the core architecture for an enterprise workflow automation platform. • Make critical technical decisions about stack, architecture patterns, and implementation independently. • Create robust APIs, integrations, and workflow engines adaptable to diverse enterprise needs. • Deploy virtually or on-site into customer organizations across the US. • Conduct discovery sessions to understand workflows and requirements. • Rapidly prototype and build custom solutions tailored to each enterprise. • Iteratively integrate AI capabilities to enhance automation and drive value. • Act as the technical face of the company during customer engagements. • Work autonomously with minimal oversight from CEO and leadership. • Make architectural decisions and push back constructively when needed. • Move fast, ship quickly, and iterate. Success comes through iteration, not upfront planning.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years building production software across front‑end and back‑end; history of shipping complex systems. • 2+ years building with Gen‑AI in real products. • Expert with TypeScript/JavaScript and modern stacks (e.g., Next.js/React , Node/Nest/Express). • Comfortable across data layers (Postgres/SQL, caches, vector stores). • LLM‑assisted development expertise: You’ve materially increased velocity and quality using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Copilot (or equivalents), and you know how to design prompts, break down problems, enforce tests, and review AI output safely. • Solid grasp of security and compliance (authN/Z, RBAC/ABAC, audit, data residency, secrets, PII handling). • Familiar with cloud + DevOps (Vercel/AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Pulumi), and monitoring/observability. • Leadership: proven experience guiding senior engineers, establishing patterns, and raising the bar; strong client‑facing communication. • Domain bonus (nice‑to‑have): retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare/life sciences.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation with performance upside. • Comprehensive benefits • Remote work • PTO

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