Vice president, ai development - 3684338

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Vice President, AI Development position! This is a direct placement opportunity and will be remote in Buffalo, NY. No C2C or subcontracting arrangements will be considered.

What You'll Be Doing:

• You’ll bring an entrepreneurial mindset to turn ideas into tangible solutions, taking products or projects from concept through launch to real users.
• Own and maintain the AI agent runtime platform with 16+ sibling services including TypeScript/NestJS, Python, and Postgres.
• Lead AWS migration from dedicated host infrastructure to ECS/Fargate and RDS under ratified cutover plan.
• Build and harden the autonomous agent kernel, locks, and merge fence enabling safe self-deployment.
• Develop memory system of record including ingestion, provenance, consolidation, and retrieval capabilities.
• Create self-learning loop with audit instruments and pinned open-weights model.
• Build operator console using React, consumer app with React Native, and real-time voice lane.
• Design and implement venture engine for identifying, researching, and launching new business initiatives.
• Take ventures from blank-page proposal through research, product build, and revenue generation.
• Author Architecture Decision Records documenting context, alternatives, safeguards, and outcome reviews.
• Implement security hardening program across three deployment phases with independent re-audit acceptance.
• Build evaluation framework including regression fixtures, break-in tests, and monthly frontier-model audits.
• Work directly with autonomous AI co-founder on daily basis to advance platform capabilities.
• Represent company at universities, Empire AI community, and with partners and vendors.

What You'll Need to Have:

• Entrepreneurial background having started and shipped a product, company, or project to real users.
• MS or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent discipline.
• Production experience shipping code with TypeScript/Node and Python in real-world environments.
• Hands-on experience with frontier-model APIs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or xAI.
• Proven expertise with Linux, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms with AWS preferred.
• Security-minded approach understanding adversarial threats to autonomous agent deployment systems.
• Excellent written and spoken English for creating technical documentation and decision records.
• Experience with agent frameworks, retrieval systems, and evaluation harnesses beyond tutorials.
• U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status required; no visa sponsorship available.

Pay Range:

$120,000 - $150,000

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