Lead Applied AI Engineer II
Deloitte · Atlanta, GA
$118,700–$243,700from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, and deploying AI and software products for Deloitte's internal technology organization. Day-to-day work spans GenAI integration (LLMs, RAG pipelines, agentic frameworks), cloud-native development, architecture oversight, and mentoring engineers. Suits an experienced full-stack or AI engineer comfortable leading technical direction across cross-functional product teams.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
No specific work location is stated in the posting; the role appears to be US-based but the city/metro is unspecified. The compensation range ($118,700–$243,700/year) is broad and explicitly noted as not adjusted for geographic differential.
The title 'Lead Applied AI Engineer II' maps to a Senior band: 'II' in this context appears to be an internal Deloitte level designation rather than a standard career-ladder 'II' (Mid), given the 6+ years requirement, mentoring/leadership scope, and 'Lead' prefix. Advertised seniority is reported as Senior based on the 'Lead' framing.
The required skills list uses 'most of the following' language for the broad technology list (Angular, React, Node.js, Python, C#, .NET, Java, SQL/NoSQL, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LangGraph), meaning candidates are not expected to hold all of them — but they sit under a hard Requirements heading, so they are treated as required gates collectively.
Angular and React are listed together as alternatives in the same enumerated stack; similarly PyTorch/TensorFlow and LangChain/LangGraph are paired. They are captured as interchangeable pairs.
Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and Vertex AI are listed as examples of cloud AI/ML services under the cloud-native requirement; they are marked preferred since the gate is on cloud-native experience generally (any hyperscaler), not on a specific AI service.
LangFuse and LangSmith are listed as examples of 'equivalent multi-agent orchestration tools' under the required methodologies section; they are treated as interchangeable alternatives for the same requirement.
ADO (Azure DevOps) is listed alongside GitHub and SonarQube in the required methodologies section and is captured as a named tool.
The role involves 10% travel on average; limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
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