Senior AI Engineer / Technical Lead (Remote Colombia or Costa Rica)

About the role

Gorillalogic is looking for a highly experienced Senior AI Engineer / AI Technical Lead to help establish and expand its AI engineering capabilities. The role suits a hands-on technical expert who builds AI solutions from the ground up, rather than adding features to an existing AI infrastructure. It is remote and open only to candidates based in Colombia or Costa Rica.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement AI pipelines and supporting infrastructure.
• Build and configure Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Design the foundational frameworks and harnesses needed to support AI development.
• Make technical decisions on AI architecture, implementation approaches and tooling.
• Troubleshoot complex technical challenges independently.
• Establish technical foundations and best practices for ongoing AI development.
• Work with engineering teams to integrate AI into existing or emerging solutions.
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer and upskilling to the internal team.
• Contribute to AI testing and validation approaches where aligned with the candidate's expertise.

Required profile

• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing AI-based solutions.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience using .NET or Java (a must).
• Demonstrated experience building AI pipelines and supporting infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of AI architectures and implementation practices.
• Experience designing foundational technical frameworks and working on projects built from scratch.
• Ability to evaluate technical approaches and explain architectural decisions.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing RAG pipelines.
• Experience establishing AI development frameworks or harnesses.
• Experience mentoring engineers and transferring technical knowledge.
• Familiarity with AI testing and validation methodologies.
• Previous work on greenfield AI initiatives or early-stage technical environments.