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Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesETL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the AI technology strategy, architecture, and execution for a small, highly technical startup
- Report directly to the CTO
- Build, ship, and scale applied AI in a company where the work is central to product success
- Define and execute the technical AI roadmap
- Deliver technical, product, and operational outcomes tightly aligned with company goals
- Hire, mentor, and manage a small team of senior generative AI engineers
- Partner closely with Product Management and Project Management
- Lead architecture and implementation for core AI systems, including: LLM-based workflows, RAG systems, AI agents, Evaluation and testing systems, Observability and performance monitoring, Model selection and routing, Data ingestion and retrieval systems
- Own major parts of the company’s data ingestion pipeline into platform storage and analytics systems
- Build infrastructure to host LLMs in the company’s new data center environment
- Establish strong experimentation and measurement practices for AI features
- Serve as an internal evangelist for effective use of AI agents inside the engineering organization
Requirements
What you’ll need- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, AI, or closely related technical fields
- Meaningful prior engineering management experience
- Proven track record building and shipping production AI/ML systems
- Strong hands-on depth with modern AI systems, especially in areas such as: LLMs, generative AI applications, RAG agents, model evaluation, observability, data pipelines / ETL, vector, graph, and relational data systems
- Experience selecting, integrating, and operating external AI vendors and services with cost accountability
- Experience evaluating and deploying open-source models in production or near-production environments
- Strong system design judgment and the ability to move fluidly between architecture, implementation, and operational execution
- Comfort operating in an early-stage, pre-revenue startup where speed, ownership, and technical judgment matter
- Ability to lead senior engineers while remaining deeply involved in design and execution.
Benefits
Comp & perks- AI is the core product capability
- Hands-on leadership position
- Opportunity to shape the technical direction
- Partner closely with Product Management and Project Management
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI technology strategyarchitectureapplied AILLM-based workflowsRAG systemsAI agentsdata ingestionETLmodel evaluationobservability
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringteam managementcollaborationtechnical judgmentcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilityownershipstrategic thinking