10 months ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Drive technical discovery with enterprise clients and understand their environments, constraints, and requirements.
- Design AI/ML architectures balancing speed, reliability, cost, and business outcomes.
- Set architectural guardrails and provide hands-on technical direction during delivery.
- Lead and coach account engineers and partner with the Forward Deployed CTO on team growth and composition.
- Serve as the technical leadership face to clients, communicating from engineering teams through C-level executives.
- Guide execution, connect technical decisions to business outcomes, and enable client teams.
- Translate client-specific solutions into reusable patterns and share deployment insights across the company.
Requirements
- 10+ years designing and delivering complex software systems with strong AI/ML depth.
- Track record of leading and coaching teams of 3 or more engineers over multiple years.
- Proven hands-on technical leadership experience building and shipping systems in high-stakes enterprise environments.
- Mastery of the AI development lifecycle, including messy data ingestion, model deployment, and monitoring.
- Ability to communicate credibly with engineers and executives.
- Background in consulting or client-facing engineering roles focused on outcomes.
- Systems-thinking orientation and strong ownership mindset.
Benefits
- Opportunity to lead AI system design for global enterprises.
- Exposure to varied industries and complex problems without established playbooks.
- Opportunity to build client capabilities and reusable solutions.
- Creativity-, resilience-, and impact-oriented culture.
- Career growth through challenging, nonlinear, and high-impact work.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Tribe AI
Tribe AI builds an enterprise AI delivery platform and provides consulting and implementation services to put high‑value AI use cases into production for large companies. The team designs, deploys, and scales applications on frontier models, with stated partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic. The privately held company is headquartered in New York, NY, and operates a platform‑plus‑services model for enterprise customers.