Linktree

Head of AI Engineering

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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.
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201-500 employees
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