Engineering Director, AI Engineering

The role

You will partner with the CEO and CTO to define and execute research strategy. You will manage research partnerships and hire and manage a team of AI engineers and researchers.

What you will do

• Partner with the CEO and CTO to define and execute on research strategy across post-training, model evaluation, search and retrieval, and continuous learning
• Manage research partnerships across a wide range of partners, from small startups to major labs
• Drive the production of high quality technical content for sharing Hex research outcomes externally
• Hire and manage an exceptional team of AI engineers and researchers

Required qualifications

• 5+ years leading applied research, AI engineering, or ML engineering teams
• Deep expertise in modern AI technology as well as classical ML systems, including LLMs and transformer models, agentic workflows, context management, and agentic evals
• Passion for delivering exceptional product experiences backed by AI and an obsession for driving business outcomes
• Strong communicator and collaborator, empowering and upleveling product and engineering counterparts
• Talent magnet, with the ability to attract and retain exceptional AI talent

Nice to have

• Experience working with RL environments

Benefits

• market-benched salary & equity
• comprehensive health benefits
• flexible paid time off

About the company

Hex is a team of builders on a mission to make everyone a data person. Their platform empowers users to explore data using natural language on trusted context.