Founding AI Lead
You will lead AI adoption across an engineering organization, ship production AI systems, and build AI-native infrastructure. You will develop integration agents, universal adapters, automated QA, and code-generation capabilities. You will coach engineers on AI-first development practices, own reliable delivery, establish tooling and processes, and work with the CEO on technical strategy and roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Lead AI initiatives, including integration agents, universal adapters, automated QA, and code generation
- Teach and coach engineers on AI-first development practices
- Own engineering execution and ship reliable infrastructure on time
- Build the AI engineering function, including tooling, processes, and culture
- Work directly with the CEO on technical strategy and roadmap
Requirements
- Production experience in stablecoins, crypto infrastructure, or payments APIs
- Hands-on production experience with LLMs such as Claude or GPT-4
- Experience teaching engineers and elevating team capabilities
- Experience managing engineering teams with 5 or more direct reports
- Knowledge of AI-assisted development workflows, including Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Temporal