Director of AI Engineering

🕒 April 28

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Ottimate

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51 - 200 employees

Ottimate (formerly Plate IQ) is the leading AP automation AI.

📋 Description

• Architect and ship production AI/ML systems — you write code, not just review it • Own the AI roadmap end-to-end: prioritization, trade-offs, delivery • Set technical standards for model quality, evals, observability, and reliability • Drive adoption of agentic coding tools to multiply team velocity • Partner with Platform Engineering on infrastructure, data pipelines, and APIs • Manage a distributed team of 8–10 engineers across Data and ML disciplines • Hire, develop, and retain engineers at all levels; build a high-trust remote culture • Partner with Product on roadmap sequencing and scope trade-offs • Communicate AI capabilities and limitations clearly to non-technical stakeholders • Own model performance metrics and drive continuous improvement pipelines

🎯 Requirements

• Production agentic pipelines using frontier models • Anthropic SDK · OpenAI SDK · tool use, function calling, multi-agent orchestration • Reliable agent loop design — planning, memory, tool execution, error recovery • RAG pipeline design — chunking, embedding models, retrieval tuning, reranking • Evals frameworks built from scratch — correctness, regression, semantic similarity • Observability for production AI — tracing, cost tracking, latency, failure analysis • Fine-tuning frontier or open-source models for domain-specific tasks • LoRA, QLoRA, instruction tuning — not just off-the-shelf API calls • Training data collection, curation, cleaning, and labeling at scale • LLM inference and serving optimization • Hands-on Python — comfortable writing, reviewing, and shipping production code • PostgreSQL — schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies • Distributed systems — async workers, queues, retries, state machines • Public-facing API design — REST, versioning, developer experience • AWS or cloud infrastructure — enough to own AI workload deployments

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation: 200,000-225,000 + 15% Annual Bonus • Competitive salary based on skills & experience. • Medical, Dental, Vision and other Company-Subsidized Benefits for you and your family. • Employer sponsored 401(k) with company match. • Paid Time Off (and the encouragement to use it). • Annual company retreats. • Promote from within philosophy. • Easier to solve difficult problems creatively and with agency.