Engineering Director, AI Engineering at Hex | CA, US | Rezi

Engineering Director, AI Engineering at Hex

Engineering Director, AI Engineering

Hex · CA, US

2 weeks ago

Engineering Director, AI Engineering

Hex · CA, US

17 days ago
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About the Role

Hex is seeking its first AI research leader to define and execute research strategy, manage partnerships, drive technical content production, and build an exceptional team of AI engineers and researchers. This role is crucial for pushing the boundaries of AI in data analytics and product development.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the CEO and CTO to define and execute on research strategy across post-training, model evaluation, search and retrieval, and continuous learning
  • Manage research partnerships across a wide range of partners, from small startups to major labs
  • Drive the production of high quality technical content for sharing Hex research outcomes externally across a variety of audiences and platforms
  • Hire and manage an exceptional team of AI engineers and researchers

Requirements

  • 5+ years leading applied research, AI engineering, or ML engineering teams
  • Deep expertise in modern AI technology as well as classical ML systems, including LLMs and transformer models, agentic workflows, context management, and agentic evals
  • Passion for delivering exceptional product experiences backed by AI and an obsession for driving business outcomes
  • Strong communicator and collaborator, empowering and upleveling product and engineering counterparts
  • Talent magnet, with the ability to attract and retain exceptional AI talent
  • Experience working with RL environments is not required, but is a plus

Skills

  • Modern AI technology
  • Classical ML systems
  • LLMs
  • Transformer models
  • Agentic workflows
  • Context management
  • Agentic evals
  • Typescript
  • React
  • Apollo GraphQL
  • Redux
  • Express
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • AWS

Location

  • San Francisco
  • New York
  • US Remote
  • UK Remote

Work Type

  • Full-time
  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • 5+ years leading applied research, AI engineering, or ML engineering teams

Salary/Compensations

  • $300,375 - $425,000

Benefits

  • Market-benched salary & equity
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Flexible paid time off

About the Company

  • Hex is growing its team on a mission to make everyone a data person. Our platform solves key pain points with today’s data and analytics tooling, empowering anyone to explore data using natural language, with or without code, on trusted context. Thousands of customers love Hex for our beautiful UI, agentic superpowers, and boundless flexibility. Hex has raised over $100M from leading investors like Sequoia, a16z, Snowflake and Amplify. With office hubs in San Francisco and New York, as well as remote team members throughout the US and UK, we’re a high-agency team that ships fast and has fun doing it.

Equal Opportunity

  • By submitting an application the candidate consents to the use of their personal information in accordance with the Hex Privacy policy: https://learn.hex.tech/docs/trust/privacy-policy.