4 days ago
Remote, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own Linktree’s AI platform, including pipelines, model and prompt versioning, evaluation harnesses, monitoring, and rollback.
- Set standards for evaluating AI features before and after launch.
- Own inference cost, latency, reliability, and other AI economics metrics.
- Drive internal AI adoption through tooling, agent workflows, and enablement across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support.
- Establish governance for data handling, vendor risk, and pre-launch evaluation.
- Partner with Data and Product leadership to sequence AI investments against the roadmap and financial model.
- Make build-versus-buy decisions and determine what the organization should not build.
- Mentor engineers and analysts working on AI surfaces and raise the organization’s operational standards.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of experience in ML/AI engineering, data platforms, or AI operations, including hands-on ownership of production systems.
- Experience running AI or ML systems in production, including pipelines, model and prompt versioning, evaluation, monitoring, and incident response.
- Working fluency with modern LLM tooling and practical issues involving cost, latency, context limits, and non-deterministic output.
- A track record of driving internal AI adoption through enablement and tooling.
- Strong build-versus-buy judgment and comfort making pragmatic decisions with incomplete information.
- Ability to establish proportionate guardrails for data handling, vendor risk, and pre-launch evaluation.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining AI trade-offs to engineers and executives.
Benefits
- Hybrid work from the Melbourne or Sydney offices, or remote work within Australia; Linktree also supports flexible remote or hybrid working more broadly.
- Annual wellbeing allowance usable for fitness, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, and home office setup.
- For US-based employees, 100% coverage of monthly medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance premiums, with 80% coverage for dependents.
- Employer retirement contribution.
- Generous vacation, holiday, parental, volunteer, and other paid time off.
- Employee stock option program.
- Family-friendly, async-oriented work culture with flexible scheduling.
