Field AI Chapter Lead: Grow Teams & Deployments

NestAi Oy; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

Occupational healthcare

Epassi Flex

Lunch benefit

Mental wellbeing services

Holiday allowance

Phone benefit

Mac or PC

Team lunches

Job summary

NestAI is recruiting an Forward Deployed AI Chapter Lead to own the technical bar and people development for a chapter of engineers with AI/ML backgrounds. You’ll spend time in the field, coaching teams across multiple client engagements and ensuring high-quality engineering practices are upheld.

You will recruit, mentor, and advance engineers, balancing staffing with wellbeing while shaping chapter-level processes as NestAI scales.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or applied research, with 3+ years in formal people management or leadership roles.
• Strong track record of hiring, mentoring, and retaining AI/ML engineers or researchers in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Technically credible in modern AI/ML practice (model development, deployment, or applied research).
• Comfortable operating without being the named technical owner of a deployment while coaching effectively.
• Genuine understanding of, or strong interest in, customer-facing/field engineering contexts.
• Ability to build people frameworks and team processes from the ground up.
• Prior background in physical AI, robotics, or defence/aerospace technology is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical bar for your chapter: define what good AI/ML engineering looks like and ensure standards hold up.
• Carry line management for a chapter of engineers across multiple deployments: recruitment, coaching, performance development, progression paths.
• Contribute to staffing and balancing engineers across deployments, weighing business needs against wellbeing and growth targets.
• Lead projects as a technical contributor without being the day-to-day owner of delivery.
• Spend time in the field coaching engineers and reviewing quality, stepping in during high-stakes moments.
• Bridge between Engineering, Product and your chapter, feeding field realities into how practices evolve.
• Support field deployments by staying close to deployment context while not delivering it yourself.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

People management

Hiring AI/ML talent

Mentoring

Field coaching

Defence tech interest

Job description

NestAI is recruiting an Forward Deployed AI Chapter Lead to own the technical bar and people development for a chapter of engineers with AI/ML backgrounds. You’ll spend time in the field, coaching teams across multiple client engagements and ensuring high-quality engineering practices are upheld.

You will recruit, mentor, and advance engineers, balancing staffing with wellbeing while shaping chapter-level processes as NestAI scales.