Head of Applied AI
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HEAD OF APPLIED AI
Location: San Francisco CA USA
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Arrangement: In-Person
Experience: 35 Years
Base Salary: $350000$500000 per year
Equity: Competitive
Visa Sponsorship: H-1B O-1 OPT
ABOUT THE COMPANY
An applied research lab building a self-improving model-agnostic AI agent platform designed to automate enterprise knowledge work.
The company has raised $24 million from leading investors including Khosla Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz and is targeting $55 million in annual recurring revenue with more than 50 customers.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Head of Applied AI will lead technical strategy engineering execution and product development for an advanced AI agent platform. This is a hands-on leadership position combining architecture production engineering team development customer engagement and applied AI research.
The successful candidate will shape the technical direction build and scale the engineering team and translate promising AI research into reliable products that solve enterprise problems.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Define and own the technical direction and long-term architecture of the AI platform.
Determine which capabilities belong in the shared product versus customer-specific implementations.
Lead engineering hiring team development technical standards and delivery.
Write production code and solve complex technical challenges alongside the engineering team.
Lead technical discussions with customers understand their requirements and resolve complex engineering issues.
Balance reliability product quality development speed and customer needs.
Set product and research priorities translating promising technical developments into customer-facing capabilities.
Ensure architectural decisions translate into measurable improvements in product performance and quality.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Proven experience building and shipping AI agents at a startup or scale-up.
Hands-on experience solving production AI agent challenges including reliability evaluation tool use context management and error handling.
Experience shaping product architecture as a platform scales.
Engineering leadership experience including hiring technical direction mentoring and delivery.
Strong production coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
Ability to lead complex technical customer conversations and take ownership of engineering outcomes.
IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE
Early or founding engineer at a high-performing AI-native company with direct contributions to core agent systems.
Alternatively an engineer from a high-bar AI team with meaningful ownership of shipped AI products.
Demonstrated expertise in agent harness architecture including short- and long-term memory evaluations benchmarks and enterprise permissioning.
Evidence of personal technical contributions architectural decisions and measurable product impact.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced early-stage startup environment.
NOT IDEAL IF
Experience limited to large-company environments without evidence of adaptability to early-stage execution.
No meaningful experience building and deploying AI agents.
HIRING PROCESS
Candidates should submit a GitHub profile or personal website demonstrating their technical work and contributions.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Base salary: $350000$500000 per year.
Competitive equity.
Visa sponsorship available for H-1B O-1 and OPT candidates.
Full-time in-person position in San Francisco California.
Required Skills:
Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Software Architecture Production Engineering Team Leadership Technical Strategy Customer Engagement Hands-on Programming
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