Head of Applied AI & Platform Engineering

Recruitment Room; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Recruitment Room in San Francisco is seeking a Head of Applied AI to lead technical strategy, engineering execution, and product development for an advanced AI agent platform. This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture, production engineering, team development, and customer engagement.

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.

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.

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.

Skills

Proven AI agent experience

Hands-on production AI

Platform architecture

Engineering leadership

Production coding

customer-facing engineering

Job description

Recruitment Room in San Francisco is seeking a Head of Applied AI to lead technical strategy, engineering execution, and product development for an advanced AI agent platform. This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture, production engineering, team development, and customer engagement.

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.