
Director of AI Engineering
Talkiatry
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $230,000 - $270,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Drive AI innovations that make high quality mental healthcare more accessible.
- Be the founding member of our AI technical team, defining and executing its roadmap.
- Lead cross-functional efforts spanning engineering, clinical, compliance, and product teams.
- Define and lead the AI roadmap across experimentation, model evaluation, deployment, and iteration.
- Architect systems to support safe and scalable LLM interactions—including prompt chaining, memory retention, and RAG pipelines.
- Develop strategies for model selection and cost-effective inference at scale.
- Design and implement experiments to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and impact of AI innovations.
- Build and scale a high-performing AI team across machine learning, data science, MLOps, and backend infrastructure.
- Serve as the AI technical authority in conversations with external vendors, cloud partners, compliance officers, and executive stakeholders.
- Partner with legal and clinical teams to ensure HIPAA compliance, BAA alignment, and safe handling of sensitive patient data.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in AI/ML roles, with at least 3 years leading cross-functional teams including engineering, product, and research.
- A successful track record of shipping production-grade AI systems—ideally in healthcare, mental health, or another mission-critical domain.
- Deep technical fluency in LLMs, retrieval systems, and safe interaction design—with an ability to lead architectural decisions and implementation.
- Experience building or managing AI teams from 0→1, with a strong recruiting eye and mentorship skills.
- Familiarity with ethical AI, including red-teaming, bias mitigation, explainability, and escalation protocols for risky outputs.
- Strong understanding of healthcare compliance (e.g., HIPAA, PHI), including how to architect systems with auditability and patient safety in mind.
- A pragmatic approach to experimentation and iteration—balancing cutting-edge AI with operational feasibility and clinical guardrails.
- Exceptional communication skills—able to convey technical decisions to both engineers and executives, and lead strategic conversations with confidence.
Benefits
- Excellent benefits: medical, dental, vision, effective day 1 of employment
- 401K with match
- Generous PTO plus paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible location: work where you want to, either remotely across the U.S. or from our HQ in NYC
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AImachine learninglarge language models (LLMs)model evaluationcost-effective inferenceMLOpsbackend infrastructureprompt chainingmemory retentionretrieval systems
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-functional team managementmentorshipcommunicationstrategic conversationpragmatic approachexperimentationiterationrecruitingcollaboration