AI Engineering Tech Lead

Job Description

Description

About Company

JobHire.ai is a vertical AI agent for automated job search. We help thousands of job seekers land interviews faster by finding, tailoring, and applying to jobs on their behalf. We’re profitable, growing fast, and now expanding the product to deliver long-term user value beyond job offers alone.

📈 ~35% MoM; top 1% in growth rate

💰 Profitable from day one

👥 40 people

🚀 Investors: Deel Ventures, Daniel Gutenberg, Dave Waiser, Margulan Seisembayev, and other unicorn founders.

Mission

 JobHire.ai is a personal AI agent for continuous professional development and happiness at work

The role

Overview

We are looking for an AI Engineering Tech Lead to architect, build, and lead our core AI products.

You will split your time between AI development (60%) and technical leadership & mentoring. You will own the technical roadmap for AI features, from candidate matching to resume parsing and conversational agents.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Define best practices for model development, MLOps, code reviews, and testing.
• Collaborate with product managers to translate business goals (e.g., match quality, latency) into technical specifications.
• Drive architectural decisions for AI services (inference pipelines, embedding stores, LLM orchestration).
• Conduct regular design reviews and ensure technical documentation.

AI Engineering

• Design and fine-tune transformer-based models for resume/job description understanding.
• Build and optimize vector search pipelines for semantic candidate matching.
• Develop agentic workflows using LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini) for screening, interview scheduling, and feedback synthesis.
• Implement production RAG systems with low latency.
• Build data pipelines for feature extraction, embedding generation, and model evaluation.
• Monitor model performance, drift, and retraining triggers.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with backend engineers to deploy models via REST APIs (FastAPI, TorchServe, or similar).
• Partner with data engineers to ensure high-quality training data from hiring interactions.
• Coordinate with product & design to embed AI features seamlessly into UX.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy (GDPR, CCPA) and fairness/anti-bias standards.

Requirements

Core Engineering

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in a tech lead or senior mentorship role.
• Strong proficiency and experience with ML frameworks: PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Deep knowledge of NLP and working with text data at scale.

AI/ML Production Skills

• Proven experience deploying LLMs or embedding models to production.
• Experience with vector databases.
• Strong understanding of retrieval, ranking, and relevance metrics (NDCG, MRR, Recall@K).
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, chain-of-thought, and agent frameworks.
• Experience with MLOps tools.

Soft & Leadership

• Excellent communication skills: ability to explain complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience conducting code reviews, running agile ceremonies, and unblocking team members.
• A bias for action and pragmatic trade-offs (speed vs. accuracy vs. cost).

Nice to have

• Experience in recruiting, HR tech, or marketplace platforms, etc.
• Background in graph ML or recommendation systems.
• Contributions to open-source AI projects or papers at conferences (NeurIPS, ACL, RecSys).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Knowledge of model fairness, bias detection, and explainability (SHAP, LIME).

Benefits

What We Offer

• JobHire is mission-driven, fast-growing, and profitable global company.
• Amazing opportunity to scale-up business growth, improving people’s careers and lives.
• Brilliant team of the strongest A players from McKinsey, Nexters, Gett, Glovo.

• Competitive salary + equity in a fast-growing AI startup.
• Remote-first culture with flexible hours.
• Opportunity to shape the AI roadmap from day one.