Head of Field Engineering (AI)

Location: In-person in London, with travel across EMEA and to the San Francisco headquarters

Compensation: OTE £180K–£265K plus equity

Company

hirify.global is building a search engine for the AI era; its Search API serves agents, Fortune 500 companies, and AI labs.

What you will do

• Build, hire, onboard, and lead Field Engineering in EMEA across Solutions Architects and Forward Deployed Engineers.
• Own the technical win for new EMEA business with regional Sales leaders.
• Lead post-sales technical success, including onboarding to production, adoption, consumption growth, and churn-risk detection.
• Stay hands-on with discovery, demos, proofs of concept, competitive evaluations, and critical customer integrations.
• Generate EMEA pipeline through webinars, technical content, events, and meetups.
• Run the regional operating model and represent EMEA customer needs in product and roadmap discussions.

Requirements

• Hands-on engineering background with the ability to build demos, review production integrations, and run rigorous evaluations.
• 6+ years in technical customer-facing roles such as solutions architecture, sales engineering, technical consulting, or forward deployed engineering, including 2+ years leading teams.
• Track record of winning technical evaluations and taking customers live after the sale.
• Experience building a team or region from an early stage.
• Clear communication with CTOs, engineers, and executives across EMEA markets.
• Willingness to travel across EMEA and to the San Francisco headquarters.
• Must work in person from London.

Nice to have

• Experience opening or scaling a new region for a US-based technology company.
• Experience building with LLMs, RAG, or agents, with credible knowledge of retrieval and search quality.
• Experience owning or co-owning a revenue number as a technical leader.
• One or more additional European languages.
• Strong interest in organizing the world's knowledge and making it accessible to machines.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with OTE compensation of £180K–£265K and equity.
• Work from hirify.global's London office in an in-person role.
• Equal opportunity employment practices.