Chief AI Architect & Production Agent Leader

Cerebro; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Cerebro in San Francisco is seeking a Director of Engineering to own and scale its entire AI organization, spanning AI infrastructure, agent intelligence and customer-facing agentic products.

The successful candidate will define the technical direction of the AI function, build the leadership team beneath them and ensure reliable, production-ready agents ship consistently. This is a deeply technical leadership role with hands-on architecture and reviews.

Qualifications

• At least five years of AI, machine learning and engineering leadership experience.
• Led an AI or ML team that shipped production LLM or agent systems.
• Built and scaled an engineering team of at least ten people.
• Deep knowledge of agentic architectures, including tool use, planning, orchestration and evals.
• Strong coding ability, ideally with significant Python experience.
• Able to review code, evaluate experiments and challenge technical assumptions.
• Experience in early-stage or rapidly growing software companies.
• Strong knowledge of production AI infrastructure, distributed systems and reliability.
• Degree in computer science or closely related technical discipline.
• Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, architecture and execution of the company’s AI organisation.
• Grow the function into teams covering AI infrastructure, agent intelligence and agentic products.
• Set the technical direction for model routing, planning, tool use, multi-agent orchestration and reliability.
• Lead the development of evaluation frameworks, shared tools and multimodal pipelines.
• Build customer facing AI assistants and long running agent workflows.
• Recruit, mentor and retain exceptional AI engineers and future engineering leaders.
• Establish rigorous standards for experimentation, system performance and production reliability.
• Work closely with the founders to influence product strategy and company direction.
• Remain actively involved in architecture decisions, code reviews and technical problem solving.

Skills

AI leadership

ML leadership

Python

Code review

Distributed systems

Education

CS degree

Tools

LLM systems

Job description

Cerebro in San Francisco is seeking a Director of Engineering to own and scale its entire AI organization, spanning AI infrastructure, agent intelligence and customer-facing agentic products.

The successful candidate will define the technical direction of the AI function, build the leadership team beneath them and ensure reliable, production-ready agents ship consistently. This is a deeply technical leadership role with hands-on architecture and reviews.