Remote Head of Applied AI Engineering — Enterprise AI

MAP Staffing Solutions Group; United States; Remote; USD 300,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote within United States

Bonus eligible

Equity

Job summary

MAP Staffing Solutions Group is seeking a Head of Applied AI Engineering to lead a forward-deployed AI engineering organization in a fully remote role within the United States. You will own deployments from discovery to production, delivering measurable outcomes for enterprise healthcare clients.

This hands-on leadership role emphasizes technical execution (75%) and team leadership (25%), with ownership of architecture, data pipelines, APIs, and security.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on engineering and delivery, including people management.
• Strong backend, data science, and ML foundations with ownership of production systems.
• Experience building and operating agentic AI or LLM apps.
• Proficient in Python, TypeScript/Node.js, SQL; experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS.
• Experience with scalable data pipelines, streaming, and distributed systems.
• Significant startup experience and ownership from build to scale.
• Proven enterprise client engagements and engineering leadership.
• Excellent executive communication and commercial judgment.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy agentic AI applications, incl. voice and multimodal systems.
• Develop predictive models and workflows for patient engagement and ops.
• Lead architecture and integration with EHR/EMR, CRM, and claims data.
• Create reliable APIs and data pipelines with security and compliance guardrails.
• Hire, mentor, and lead Applied AI Engineers and set delivery standards.
• Act as senior technical partner for enterprise accounts, translating needs into outcomes.
• Collaborate with Sales and Growth on technical discovery and opportunities.
• Turn deployment patterns and client feedback into reusable platform capabilities.

Skills

Leadership

Backend engineering

Data science

Production systems

Agentic AI/LLM

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

SQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS

Data pipelines

Event-driven architectures

Startup experience

Enterprise engagements

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

Job description

MAP Staffing Solutions Group is seeking a Head of Applied AI Engineering to lead a forward-deployed AI engineering organization in a fully remote role within the United States. You will own deployments from discovery to production, delivering measurable outcomes for enterprise healthcare clients.

This hands-on leadership role emphasizes technical execution (75%) and team leadership (25%), with ownership of architecture, data pipelines, APIs, and security.