Head of Applied AI
Catena Labs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Own the orchestration layer connecting product experiences to banking infrastructure
- Establish eval frameworks that prove our agents are reliable
- Stay ahead of emerging agent protocols (A2A, x402, MCP, LangGraph) and integrate where it strengthens our infrastructure
- Partner closely with Product Development and Banking Core to ensure AI capabilities are deeply integrated
- Hire and develop AI engineers and data scientists as the team grows
Requirements
- Deep experience shipping production AI systems, whether that's a decade in ML or fewer years with intensive focus on the current LLM paradigm
- You build things directly. You're not looking for a role where you manage without coding.
- Strong intuition for model selection, eval methodology, and build-vs-buy tradeoffs
- Security-minded. You understand prompt injection, adversarial inputs, and why these matter more when money is involved.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, able to set direction while shipping
Benefits
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Hard skills
AI systemsmachine learningLLM (large language model)model selectionevaluation methodologyprompt injectionadversarial inputsproduction deploymentcodingbuild-vs-buy tradeoffs
Soft skills
intuitionsecurity-mindedcomfortable with ambiguitydirection settingteam development