Technical Leader (AI/ML)

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $250,000–$350,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace connecting companies with specialized recruiters and AI agents to fill roles faster and more accurately.

What you will do

• Own the AI Platform engineering team and set technical direction for matching, ranking, retrieval, personalization, and agentic systems.
• Hire, coach, and level a pod of Applied AI, ML, and Product engineers working in small autonomous teams.
• Stay hands-on by designing data and labeling strategies, features and embeddings, model selection, training, fine-tuning, and production systems.
• Solve difficult modeling problems including ranking plateaus, conflicting offline and production evaluations, and cold-start scenarios.
• Build evaluation frameworks for model quality, reliability, and business impact, and turn ambiguous goals into quarterly plans.
• Balance model capability, system quality, cost, and latency while improving automation, match quality, and hiring velocity.

Requirements

• Staff-level individual-contributor depth in ML or applied AI while leading technical work.
• At least 1 year of managing or formally tech-leading engineers, or 4+ years setting technical direction across multiple teams.
• Production experience shipping ML or LLM systems used at scale, including retrieval, ranking, recommendation, or agentic workflows.
• Strong evaluation and data skills, including measuring model quality against business outcomes, using SQL, and assessing experiments.
• Comfort using AI tools, writing decision documents and postmortems, and shipping production code every week.

Culture & Benefits

• Small autonomous teams with high expectations for judgment.
• Promotion is based on judgment and impact rather than lines of code.
• The role offers meaningful ownership while the engineering organization is scaling.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.