VP, AI Engineering

Location: United States · Remote

Compensation: $220,000 median offers, with top-tier packages reaching $410,000 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/ML initiatives, aligning priorities with business outcomes and architecture constraints.
• Build and lead a high-performing AI/ML engineering team through hiring, mentoring, and setting standards for engineering rigor.
• Partner with product, data science, and platform teams to translate business requirements into scalable ML systems.
• Ship production AI/ML systems end-to-end, from problem definition and data strategy through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Establish engineering standards, MLOps practices, and governance frameworks for performant, auditable, and maintainable models.
• Evaluate emerging ML tools, frameworks, and infrastructure while making build-versus-buy decisions and communicating trade-offs to stakeholders.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years building, shipping, or leading production AI/ML systems.
• Experience managing and growing engineering teams of 3+ people, including hiring and developing engineers and leaders.
• Strong understanding of ML workflows, including data pipelines, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Hands-on experience writing model-training code and working with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn.
• Experience setting technical strategy, making architectural trade-offs, and translating business needs into engineering roadmaps.
• Ability to communicate technical possibilities, risks, and priorities to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent remote work based in the United States.
• Opportunity to be considered for future AI transformation leadership roles through the candidate network.