Chief Technology Officer (AI)

Location: Remote; candidates based in Canada, South America, or Europe

Company

hirify.global is a global network of business, design, and technology professionals that enables companies to scale teams on demand.

What you will do

• Set the technical strategy and own the architecture across hirify.global’s products, services, data flows, interfaces, and system boundaries.
• Build and lead an AI-first technology platform covering model selection, fine-tuning, retrieval, context engineering, orchestration, tool and MCP integration, guardrails, evaluation, and cost control.
• Deploy agentic systems across matching, vetting, onboarding, delivery, and internal operations, with measurable outcomes for cost, cycle time, quality, or revenue.
• Modernize engineering practices through AI-assisted development, review, testing, and operations while maintaining quality, security, reliability, and responsible AI standards.
• Own workforce planning, team structure, hiring commitments, talent assessment, and leadership development.
• Partner with Product and executive leadership to turn strategy into production-ready outcomes and business impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; an advanced degree is strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including significant time as a CTO, VP of Engineering, or direct report to one at meaningful scale.
• Hands-on production experience with foundation models, agentic architectures, harness design, retrieval, context engineering, fine-tuning, evaluation, distributed systems, service architecture, data-intensive applications, and cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience deploying agentic systems at scale, measuring results, evaluating model and agent changes, and retiring ineffective solutions.
• Experience scaling and modernizing large existing codebases, managing model economics, inference capacity, latency, cost budgets, and provider portability.
• Experience leading globally distributed remote teams in a technology or hyper-growth company, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work within the stated geographic regions.
• High-ownership environment focused on speed, execution, measurable outcomes, and quality.
• Hands-on leadership culture requiring active participation in design reviews, coding, hiring, and technical decision-making.
• Opportunity to establish shared AI architecture, evaluation practices, and agentic engineering standards across the organization.

Hiring process

• The first week focuses on learning the platform architecture and establishing a working rhythm with the CEO and business leaders.
• Within the first month, assess engineering and AI maturity, team capability, and the required strategy.
• Within the first three months, present a resourcing plan, establish shared AI architecture and evaluations, and put an agentic workflow into production.