Head of Engineering, AI Platform
Core
Build a new Data Inference AI Pipeline team and system from scratch to support satellite and AI-powered utility products for electric utilities.
Role type
Senior IC engineering manager (Head of Engineering, AI Platform)
Builds
Multimodal data inference pipelines, model training systems, and human-in-the-loop feedback loops for AI products
Domain
Energy/Utilities + AI/ML Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Architecting data/ML pipelines at scale, building modern AI systems (reasoning, agentic capabilities, RAG), cloud-native multi-tenant SaaS architectures, hiring and scaling engineering teams, managing global distributed teams, technical decision ownership
Preferred skills
Geospatial data and satellite imagery pipelines, utilities/energy/infrastructure background, scaling net-new teams in high-growth startups
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, microservices
Responsibilities
Define team charter, headcount plan, and hiring bar; architect scalable inference pipelines; build model training and HITL feedback loops; establish engineering practices (code review, testing, on-call); hire, coach, and develop engineering managers and leads; partner with Product, Data Science, and Design on roadmap trade-offs; report progress, risks, and resourcing needs to leadership
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
