Head of Applied AI

The role

You will lead the team building AI capabilities that power Latent's products. You will own the approach to production AI across clinical and operational workflows and lead the development of Latent Agent and evaluation systems.

What you will do

• Set the strategy and operating model for Applied AI at Latent
• Lead the team building production AI agents and intelligence systems
• Own Latent Agent, the evaluation framework, and shared foundations
• Establish evaluation practices to drive decisions
• Make build-versus-buy decisions across models, prompting, and infrastructure
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to define priorities
• Guide technical direction and empower technical leads
• Build, hire, and develop a high-performing team
• Create predictable, visible execution
• Own the reliability of live AI systems

Required qualifications

• Built and shipped production-grade LLM agents
• Owned live production systems including on-call, reliability, and service-level objectives
• Trained or fine-tuned a model, shipped it, and measured its impact
• Strong judgment about when to post-train, prompt engineer, or use off-the-shelf capabilities
• Led teams that shipped products as a manager or staff-level engineer
• Ability to move between strategy and technical detail
• Partnered closely with Product and stakeholders outside engineering
• Built AI for domains with deep context, complex requirements, or operational constraints
• Made difficult performance and organizational decisions
• Communicate reasoning clearly

Nice to have

• Healthcare experience
• Experience building systems that use sensitive data

About the company

Latent builds clinical intelligence that helps health systems run complex pharmacy operations. The work spans healthcare workflows, enterprise software, and applied AI.