NYPL is hiring a Technical Team Lead to join our Scholarly eBooks team to help us develop a new, cutting edge access project for a wide swath of research materials.This pioneering project aims to integrate Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies into the New York Public Library’s existing infrastructure, which prioritizes privacy, accuracy and equitable access to knowledge. Our core objective is to develop and deploy these powerful tools in a responsible and ethical manner. The ultimate goal is to empower researchers, scholars, and the general public to unearth and engage with materials within NYPL’s vast and diverse collections in novel and profoundly impactful ways, thereby significantly enriching their exploration and discovery processes.

This role will lead a small, dedicated team of engineers to build and maintain applications (including an API layer, data pipelines and others) that will provide access to our growing digital collections, making our immense collections more accessible for our patrons through the NYPL website.

You will also contribute to the technical leadership of the larger Research group by helping set standards for best practices in Python application development, database management and other technical areas.