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Role Overview
This is the pod's most critical hire. You set the technical direction for every piece of AI work at Kissht - architecture, integration patterns, evaluation infrastructure, and the call between vendor APIs and self-hosted models. When someone asks 'how do we do AI engineering here', the answer is yours to give.
Responsibilities - building and delivery
AI platform architecture: LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, context engineering, evaluation harnesses, observability.
Build-vs-buy technical calls, in partnership with other stakeholders.
Engineering standards for AI work across Kissht: how we prompt, evaluate, monitor, and iterate.
Technical vendor evaluations: API testing, latency and accuracy benchmarks, integration complexity, red-flag surfacing.
Mentoring the two SDE-2 Builders and the Data Engineer. You set the quality bar.
What success looks like - first 90 days
The pod's AI architecture is documented, reviewed, a...
This is the pod's most critical hire. You set the technical direction for every piece of AI work at Kissht - architecture, integration patterns, evaluation infrastructure, and the call between vendor APIs and self-hosted models. When someone asks 'how do we do AI engineering here', the answer is yours to give.
Responsibilities - building and delivery
AI platform architecture: LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, context engineering, evaluation harnesses, observability.
Build-vs-buy technical calls, in partnership with other stakeholders.
Engineering standards for AI work across Kissht: how we prompt, evaluate, monitor, and iterate.
Technical vendor evaluations: API testing, latency and accuracy benchmarks, integration complexity, red-flag surfacing.
Mentoring the two SDE-2 Builders and the Data Engineer. You set the quality bar.
What success looks like - first 90 days
The pod's AI architecture is documented, reviewed, a...
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