About the Company
CodeNinja is a global technology and AI firm with 10+ years in the industry, helping enterprises modernize systems and embed AI into their workflows. We work across enterprise software, financial services, defense, health, logistics, and more, with 240+ clients across 15 countries. We partner with organizations to deliver AI infrastructure, dedicated engineering teams, and forward-deployed engineers who work directly inside client environments to own outcomes.
About the role
The AI Engineering Team Lead is a senior, hands-on engineering leader responsible for delivering high-impact, AI-enabled software while guiding a small team of AI Engineers. This role combines deep individual contribution with day-to-day technical leadership, ensuring that AI is applied effectively, responsibly, and at production scale.
This is not a management-heavy or research-oriented role. Team Leads remain deeply involved in building systems, writing code, and applying AI directly to real problems, while also mentoring engineers and maintaining a high bar for execution.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating agentic AI systems in production, including autonomous tool use and multi-step workflows.
Strong mastery of Model Context Protocols (MCPs) or equivalent approaches, including defining and enforcing patterns used by a team.
Strong technical understanding of AI models, including:
o Model names, versions, and parameter scales
o Context window limitations and strategies
o System prompts vs. user prompts
o Trade-offs between models (latency, cost, reasoning quality, reliability)
Experience working with both frontier and open-source models, and making informed decisions between them.
Proven experience scaling AI systems, addressing latency, cost optimization, caching, parallelization, and architecture trade-offs.
Why Join Us
Disclaimer: CodeNinja is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, & performance. Female and minorities are strongly encouraged and preferred to apply for the role
Benefits
CodeNinja is a Middle Eastern–American Software & AI company helping businesses build AI systems and learning architectures for mission-critical workloads.
With offices in Seattle, San Francisco, Riyadh, and Lahore, our work centers on enabling organizations to develop capabilities across workplaces and factory floors using both open-source and proprietary AI models, spanning generative and deterministic systems.
We believe most workplaces and factory floors are not ready for the post-AGI era of work. Our mission is to help enterprises reimagine how work itself is organized and executed so that human talent and automation not only coexist but thrive. We call this mission: “Reimagining Workplaces for Post-AGI Readiness.”
At the core of our approach is Hyper Tools, our integrated Platform + Services model, designed to accelerate the creation of AI applications and agents in complex domains. Hyper Tools reduces the generality of large models through reinforcement learning, rapid development workflows and purpose built synthetic and manual Data creation.
Our focus spans four core thrust areas:
Physical AI Systems – Building AI/ML systems for physical infrastructure. Some of the world’s leading chemical and energy companies rely on CodeNinja’s outcome-based, vendor-independent models to enhance operational efficiency and revenue.
Work AI – Developing agentic AI systems that transform workplace processes into adaptive, intelligent experiences.
Hyper Core – Enabling enterprises to build software and automation layers in-house instead of outsourcing to Software Services Vendors.
Global Capability & AI Centers – Partnering with universities and developer communities in South Asia and South America to build AI and research talent pipelines, helping global companies scale their capabilities sustainably.
Founded by 4 Engineers and incredible team of operators, CodeNinja is united by this mantra of " Inspiration and Innovation for every knowledge worker in the world"
