Remote Position
[Remote] Head of Applied AI Engineering
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Theron Solutions is seeking a Head of Applied AI Engineering for a client to build and lead its Applied AI group. The role combines hands-on development of AI/ML systems with team leadership and technical support for strategic enterprise healthcare clients.
Responsibilities
- Spend about 75% of your time as a hands-on builder, setting the standard for how Clients's forward-deployed engineers work
- Build agentic AI and LLM systems, such as voice agents and multimodal conversational systems for scheduling and routing, that plug into client enterprise systems
- Ship predictive "precision targeting" models on Client's 1.2 PB of proprietary data, for use cases like patient recruitment for Phase II/III drug trials
- Spend about 25% of your time leading the team: hiring, firing, motivating and mentoring a fast-growing group of Applied AI Engineers
- Serve as the technical executive for strategic enterprise healthcare clients and support pre-sales and expansion deals
Skills
- 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including at least a couple of years managing people
- Strong data science and ML background, with experience putting AI/ML and agentic systems into production (Python, TypeScript/Node, LangChain/LangGraph, AWS)
- Experience in healthcare, health insurance, health systems, life sciences or pharma
- Entrepreneurial startup background, ideally with long tenure through a company's growth and exposure to scaling past $100M in revenue
- Executive presence and commercial skills: comfortable leading a boardroom while staying humble and low-ego
Company Overview
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