VP, AI Engineering

Location: United States · Remote

Salary: $200,000–$490,000 base salary annually based on the tracked US senior-level AI engineering market.

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/ML engineering, translating business priorities into scalable product and platform capabilities.
• Build and lead an AI engineering organization, including hiring, technical standards, and reliable production delivery.
• Drive the architecture and implementation of ML platforms, data pipelines, and inference infrastructure.
• Partner with product, research, and data science teams to integrate models into customer-facing and internal applications.
• Establish MLOps, monitoring, and governance practices covering production performance and compliance.
• Advise leadership on technical feasibility, resource trade-offs, capability gaps, third-party AI tools, and vendor relationships.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years building, shipping, and operating production machine learning systems.
• Experience leading and scaling engineering teams of approximately 5–30+ engineers through rapid growth and technical change.
• Hands-on expertise in ML infrastructure, model deployment, experiment tracking, or MLOps.
• Ability to translate ambiguous AI/ML requirements into engineering roadmaps and measurable business outcomes.
• Experience collaborating with data science, product, and business teams to align technical decisions with organizational goals.
• Comfort working in a remote, distributed environment and building alignment asynchronously across geographies and functions.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work in a distributed environment.
• Opportunity to be considered for future senior AI engineering opportunities through the candidate network.
• Roles may span professional services, technology, financial services, and manufacturing organizations.