Director, AI Platform

Location: United States · Remote

Salary: $250,000–$430,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a specialist executive search firm focused on leaders who help organizations navigate AI transformation.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for AI platform capabilities, balancing innovation, reliability, and operational cost.
• Design and evolve infrastructure for model development, training, inference, and monitoring across multiple organizational use cases.
• Lead AI/ML engineers, architects, and platform specialists through technical standards, architecture reviews, and mentoring.
• Partner with product and business leaders to translate AI opportunities into technical requirements and delivery plans.
• Make build-versus-buy, open-source-versus-proprietary, and cloud infrastructure decisions based on performance, cost, and time-to-market trade-offs.
• Establish observability, governance, security, model versioning, explainability, bias detection, compliance, feature pipelines, data quality checks, and retraining workflows.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering or ML systems experience, including 4–5 years in AI architecture, platform engineering, or leading ML infrastructure teams.
• Track record of architecting and shipping production AI systems at meaningful scale, including large language models, computer vision, forecasting, or recommender systems.
• Hands-on knowledge of model serving frameworks, training infrastructure, vector databases, experiment tracking, and monitoring tools.
• Experience leading and growing engineering teams, setting technical vision, and communicating trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong system design judgment with experience in distributed systems, data pipelines, or cloud infrastructure decisions.
• Familiarity with AI governance, security, bias mitigation, and regulatory compliance frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from the United States.
• This posting is for future opportunities and adds applicants to a candidate network for relevant roles.