VP of Engineering, Applications (AI)

TL;DR

VP of Engineering, Applications (AI): Responsible for engineering systems, teams, and execution turning ML capabilities into reliable, fast, and intuitive user experiences across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms with an accent on AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations. Focus on leading a small senior applications team, making high-impact technical decisions across latency, reliability, and security, and ensuring production readiness with observability and cost controls.

Location: Remote (Singapore)

Company

hirify.global's A1 is building a proactive AI chat app for everyday users, focusing on high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, multi-step reasoning, external tool interactions, and real-world task completion.

What you will do

• Own application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Lead and grow a small, senior applications team.
• Set architectural direction for AI-powered workflows, APIs, and client integrations.
• Integrate AI capabilities with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes.
• Partner with ML leadership to translate models into shippable product features.
• Establish ownership boundaries, ensure production readiness, and balance speed with quality.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Strong hands-on background building and shipping production backend systems.
• Experience delivering AI-powered products and understanding model integration trade-offs.
• Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows.
• Comfort operating across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms.
• Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity, with bias toward shipping and iteration.
• Low ego, strong judgment, ability to raise technical bar.

Culture & Benefits

• High talent density, hands-on small world-class teams.
• Collective decision-making, rapid speed, balance between high-quality shipping and learning.
• Empowerment for team members to own, grow, and make high-impact contributions.

Hiring process

• Applications evaluated by technical team members.
• 3-4 interviews via virtual meetings and/or onsite.
• Prompt decision with offer for exceptional fits.