Lead AI Engineer + Agent Builder + Platform Engineer

AI transformation firm shipping production AI systems for mid-market enterprises in regulated and technical domains — finance, energy, industrials, healthcare. We do not stop at PowerPoint AI strategy. We ship working systems alongside our clients' engineering teams. Small teams, deep expertise, real autonomy on real work. Hiring: [1] Lead AI Engineer, Agentic Systems — Embedded technical lead on a multi-agent orchestration build for one of the country's leading power engineering firms. Architect the engine; design the patterns we replicate at the next client. 6+ yrs eng, 2+ shipping LLM/agentic systems in production. Strong Python; opinions on agent frameworks. Monthly US travel to one major metro. https://catalystwayfare.ai/jd-lead (https://catalystwayfare.ai/jd-lead) [2] AI Engineer, Agent Builder — Hands-on builder embedded on the same engagement. End-to-end ownership of individual capability agents — prompts, tools, retrieval, evals, monitoring. 3–5 yrs strong Python, real production LLM API experience, shipped at least one agent system end-to-end. 1099 contract, ~30–40 hrs/wk. Occasional US travel. https://catalystwayfare.ai/jd-builder (https://catalystwayfare.ai/jd-builder) [3]Platform Manager (Engineering), Trust.ML — Founding platform engineer on our productized governance, evaluation, and deployment surface. Own the roadmap, write the code, set the operational posture (SLOs, on-call, audit). 5+ yrs, prior engineer-in-charge experience. Quarterly US travel. Compensation competitive with senior platform roles at venture-funded AI infrastructure companies; equity reflects the founding nature of the seat. https://catalystwayfare.ai/jd-platform (https://catalystwayfare.ai/jd-platform) Stack: Claude + OpenAI + Gemini + Perplexity APIs in production, open-source models when the math points there. Cursor and Claude Code daily. Vercel, Neon, Sentry. Evals as first-class artifacts. Apply: per each JD's instructions, to talent+hn@cwai.co. Short cover note matters more than a resume.