Director of Engineering - AI

📋 Description

• Partner directly with cofounders to set AI engineering strategy.
• Hire, lead, and mentor a founding AI engineering team.
• Act as a player-coach, contributing hands-on architecture and training.
• Design scalable ML infrastructure for training, deployment, monitoring.
• Lead development of agentic applications for real-world customers.
• Establish data quality, labeling, and ML pipelines best practices.

🎯 Requirements

• 8-10 years of backend software engineering experience, with 2+ years leading AI/ML teams.
• Hands-on experience training AI/ML models, including foundation models and fine-tuned models.
• Proven experience building and deploying agentic applications with orchestration.
• Strong track record of launching AI models and agents into production at scale.
• Advanced expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning.
• Experience designing scalable data systems and pipelines for training and inference.
• Fluency in backend and ML-oriented languages such as Python, Java, Scala, or C++.
• Knowledge of ML toolkits/frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain).

🎁 Benefits

• Base pay $250,000 - $300,000/year plus 20% bonus and equity options.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short- and long-term disability and life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• 10+ paid holidays and unlimited PTO.