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AI Technical Leader

Seattle, WA

Compensation: $275K - $425K+

Travel Requirement: International travel required to India 8+ times per year

Evergreen Posting: This is an evergreen posting for a role type we hire for frequently. Timing, level, and exact team placement may vary based on business needs; we keep this posting open to meet strong candidates as needs arise.

 

AI Foundry is an AI building and consulting business working with some of the largest companies in the world. AI Foundry is partnered with a major global company operating across finance, consumer, and retail verticals, leading their AI efforts from the ground up.

The team is seeking builders who want to be part of something massive: designing and building multi-agent AI systems that will reshape how hundreds of millions of people interact with financial services, retail, insurance, and consumer products.

AI Foundry is looking for technical leaders who can set direction and do the work across AI products, platforms, infrastructure, and global engineering teams. You bring enough depth to challenge architecture, write code, prototype patterns, debug hard problems, and connect technical choices to business outcomes. This is hands-on, build-from-scratch work with real backing, real ambiguity, and real scale.

If you want to shape AI systems by building, reviewing, debugging, and leading from the work itself, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Do

  • Set technical direction for AI-native products, multi-agent systems, platform services, and infrastructure decisions while staying close enough to the code and architecture to know what is really happening.
  • Translate broad business goals into technical strategy, architecture, roadmaps, prototypes, and execution plans that teams can actually build against.
  • Build proof-of-concepts, reference implementations, integrations, evaluation harnesses, and technical demos when that is the fastest way to clarify direction.
  • Serve as a senior technical voice in leadership conversations, helping executives understand tradeoffs, risks, sequencing, and build-vs-buy decisions with evidence from real systems.
  • Challenge vendor, partner, and internal assumptions with substance when a technical claim, architecture, roadmap, or AI narrative does not hold up.
  • Work directly with product, engineering, infrastructure, and business teams to design, build, review, and improve systems that support user outcomes and commercial goals.
  • Debug technical blockers, review pull requests or implementation plans, and help teams move from abstract architecture to working software.
  • Lead calls with overseas engineering and client teams to review architecture, inspect implementation progress, provide technical guidance, and hold teams to a high bar.
  • Establish hands-on patterns for agentic systems, AI application architecture, observability, evaluation, reliability, and scalable delivery.
  • Build, mentor, and influence technical teams as the business scales, creating leverage through working examples, clear standards, code review, and strong technical judgment.
  • Stay deeply fluent in AI capabilities, infrastructure, agentic frameworks, inference economics, developer tools, and the competitive landscape by using the tools yourself.
  • Travel to India 8+ times per year to work directly with engineering, infrastructure, product, and client teams.

Who You Are

  • You have led and built technical work at significant scale and understand what breaks when systems, teams, users, and business expectations all grow at once.
  • You are deeply AI-fluent: able to engage substantively on agentic systems, model capabilities, AI product architecture, infrastructure, inference, and evaluation.
  • You have hands-on technical credibility: you can read code, write code or prototypes when needed, review architecture, challenge assumptions, and demonstrate a better pattern.
  • You can connect technical decisions to business outcomes, customer value, cost, reliability, speed, and long-term platform leverage.
  • You have strong executive presence and can sit with senior leaders, customers, vendors, or partners and say what you think is correct with clarity, evidence, and practical technical grounding.
  • You are comfortable operating across layers of the stack, from infrastructure and platform services through product experience and enterprise deployment.
  • You are building right now: using AI tools, writing or reviewing code, inspecting system behavior, and staying current through direct practice rather than distance from the work.
  • You thrive in ambiguity and can define the playbook rather than wait for one to appear.
  • You can hold a high bar for teams without being territorial, dismissive, or hard to collaborate with.
  • You communicate clearly in writing and conversation, especially across technical, business, executive, and global stakeholders.
  • You are energized by building from the ground up with real resources behind the work.
  • You understand how to lead through substance: working systems, strong reasoning, clear artifacts, direct feedback, and a willingness to make decisions with incomplete information.

How We Work

We are looking for people who use AI to raise the speed, quality, and ambition of the work while staying grounded in customers, teammates, and measurable outcomes.

  • We are hands-on with AI and technical tools, and we make ideas tangible through prototypes, clear artifacts, and working systems.
  • We move quickly, share work early, and keep refining until the product experience feels useful, polished, and memorable.
  • We focus on the hardest problems and the outcomes that matter, with the judgment to change course when the evidence points somewhere better.
  • We communicate clearly enough that teammates, leaders, and AI-assisted workflows can act on our thinking across time zones.
  • We collaborate with openness and respect, build on other people's ideas, and treat shared ownership as part of doing excellent work.
  • We speak up directly and constructively when something looks wrong, then commit fully once a decision is made.

Benefits & More

  • Medical and Dental benefits
  • 401K
  • Opportunity to shape AI strategy for 500M+ users

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