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It is to get a portfolio company to the point of scaling an AI opportunity and then hand it off, including helping them hire and build their own capability.RequirementsWhat You'll DoAssess AI feasibility during diligence, and set technical direction for the systems that follow: data products, retrieval pipelines, model orchestration, agentic workflows, evaluation, deployment, and monitoringDesign and build LLM workflows, retrieval systems, and agentic applications directly against a portco's real enterprise data and infrastructureDefine secure, scalable reference architectures appropriate to each portco's environment, across major cloud and AI platform services as neededEstablish evaluation and observability standards for what you build, test sets, automated evals, tracing, quality scoring, latency/cost monitoring, and regression testing, so handoff teams can trust and maintain itBuild in human-in-the-loop controls and sound data/security practices by default, even where a formal governance function doesn't yet exist at the portcoDevelop working prototypes that can evolve into production systems, and transfer that knowledge directly to portfolio company technical teams to support handoff and their own hiringEvaluate emerging models, frameworks, and tools, and bring back a practical point of view on what's worth adopting versus what's prototype-onlyWhat You'll Bring8+ years of professional software development experience with a deep understanding of full-stack architecturesMeaningful, hands-on experience shipping production AI/ML systems, not just prototypes, including generative AI or agentic AIDeep fluency in agentic tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot) and in agentic architecture patterns: single- and multi-agent workflows, supervisor/worker patterns, state and memory management, orchestration, and safe action executionStrong grasp of modern GenAI patterns: advanced RAG, embeddings, vector/hybrid search, re-ranking, tool/function calling, structured outputs, and context engineeringProficiency with modern AI engineering frameworks, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or comparable, and strong Python skillsWorking knowledge of cloud AI/ML platforms (e.g., Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI) and enterprise data ecosystems (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, vector databases) sufficient to work inside whatever stack a given portco already runsComfort setting LLMOps/MLOps standards on the fly, versioning, CI/CD, containerisation, cost and performance optimisation, in environments that may have none of this todayAbility to structure codebases and specifications to produce reliable, context-efficient AI outputSound judgement on architecture tradeoffs, model selection, retrieval strategy, latency, cost, security, vendor lock-in, and the ability to explain those tradeoffs plainly to both technical and non-technical stakeholdersComfortable engaging with both executives and frontline usersForensic attention to detail, extreme ownership, and a positive, can-do mindsetExperience on Agile/Scrum teams and on large, complex systemsBenefitsAt Devsu, we believe in creating an environment where you can thrive both personally and professionally. 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