# AI Engineering Lead

**Company:** [Hex](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hex)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $246k – $329k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Transformer Models, Agentic Workflows, Context Management, Agentic Evals, TypeScript, React, Apollo Graphql, Redux, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, AWS
**Posted:** 2026-04-09

> Leads AI engineering team to integrate frontier AI technologies like LLMs and agentic workflows into the product, hires and mentors engineers, and delivers high-performing AI infrastructure. Requires 4+ years people management and deep AI/ML expertise.

## Job Description

## What you will do

- Stay up-to-date on the latest in AI technology and work with engineering teams to push the frontier of product capabilities
- Define and implement the future of the AI Engineering function at Hex as we scale
- Hire and mentor an exceptional team of AI Engineers
- Support an exceptional developer and research experience for teams working with AI technology
- Deliver high-performing shared AI infrastructure, including search systems

## About You

- 4+ years of people management experience and leading high-performing teams
- Deep familiarity with modern AI technology as well as classical ML systems and a passion for sharing that with others. Technologies of particular interest include **LLMs** and **transformer models**, **agentic workflows**, **context management**, and **agentic evals**
- Obsessed with driving business outcomes and delivering value to customers
- Rigorous but pragmatic, balancing good experimental design with early-stage agility
- Strong communicator and love collaborating with other roles and teams to drive outcomes
- Talent magnet, with the ability to attract and retain exceptional AI talent

## Our stack

Our product is a web-based notebook and app authoring platform. Our frontend is built with **Typescript** and **React**, using a combination of **Apollo GraphQL** and **Redux** for managing application state and data. On the backend, we also use **Typescript** to power an **Express/Apollo GraphQL** server that interacts with **Postgres**, **Redis**, and **Kubernetes** to manage our database and Python kernels. Our backend is tightly integrated with our infrastructure and CI/CD, where we use a combination of **Terraform**, **Helm**, and **AWS** to deploy and maintain our stack.

## Compensation

Salary range: **$246,000 - $329,000**

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