VP, AI Development

Intone Inc; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Intone Inc. is actively seeking a Vice President of AI Development for a fully remote role based in the United States.

You will lead the AI development strategy and oversee engineering teams to ship production code and integrate frontier-model APIs into production systems. The candidate will drive architectural decisions for AI-driven products, create technical documentation, and maintain robust decision records, ensuring secure and scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent discipline.
• Production experience shipping code with TypeScript/Node and Python in real-world environments.
• Hands-on experience with frontier-model APIs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or xAI.
• Proven expertise with Linux, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms.
• Entrepreneurial background with demonstrated experience starting and shipping a product, company, or project to real users.
• Security-minded approach with understanding of adversarial threats to autonomous agent deployment systems.
• Excellent written and spoken English for creating technical documentation and decision records.
• Experience with agent frameworks, retrieval systems, and evaluation harnesses beyond tutorials.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI development strategy and execution.
• Ship production code and oversee engineering teams.
• Work with frontier-model APIs and integrate them into production systems.
• Drive technical decision-making and architecture for AI-driven products.
• Create technical documentation and decision records.

Skills

AI/ML leadership

Production software engineering

frontier-model APIs

Security-minded development

English documentation

Agent frameworks

Leadership experience

Research and evaluation

Team collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

Master's or PhD in Computer Science / AI/ML / Electrical Engineering

Tools

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Linux

Docker

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

AWS

Job description

We are seeking a Vice President of AI Development for a full-time remote role based in the United States, with an expected duration of 36 months or more.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI development strategy and execution
• Ship production code and oversee engineering teams
• Work with frontier-model APIs and integrate them into production systems
• Drive technical decision-making and architecture for AI-driven products
• Create technical documentation and decision records

Qualifications

Required

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent discipline
• Production experience shipping code with TypeScript/Node and Python in real-world environments
• Hands-on experience with frontier-model APIs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or xAI
• Proven expertise with Linux, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms
• Entrepreneurial background with demonstrated experience starting and shipping a product, company, or project to real users
• Security-minded approach with understanding of adversarial threats to autonomous agent deployment systems
• Excellent written and spoken English for creating technical documentation and decision records
• Experience with agent frameworks, retrieval systems, and evaluation harnesses beyond tutorials

Preferred

• AWS cloud platform experience