Oumi
Head of Field Engineering
Seattle, WA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 115 days ago
PythonMachine LearningLLMsRAGA/B TestingAccessibilityCustomer SuccessResearchLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who combines strong technical depth in AI/ML systems with a track record of leading customer-facing technical teams.
- The ideal candidate has experience leading or working closely with sales engineering, applied AI, forward-deployed engineering, solutions architecture, or field engineering teams in fast-moving technical environments.
Responsibilities
- This leader will own the strategy and execution for field engineering across the customer lifecycle, from technical discovery and solution design through proof of concept, deployment, onboarding, and expansion.
Requirements
- You have a strong track record of leading complex enterprise customer engagements and communicating effectively with both technical practitioners and executive stakeholders.
- You are proficient in Python and have strong practical experience with modern AI/LLM systems, model training frameworks, and production use cases such as RAG, agents, or agentic systems.
- Customer-facing leadership: You have a strong track record of leading complex enterprise customer engagements and communicating effectively with both technical practitioners and executive stakeholders.
- Technical depth: You are proficient in Python and have strong practical experience with modern AI/LLM systems, model training frameworks, and production use cases such as RAG, agents, or agentic systems.
Benefits
- Equity in a high-growth startup
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Build and lead the field engineering function: Define the vision, operating model, and roadmap for Oumi's field engineering organization, including hiring, mentoring, and scaling a high-performing team.
- We design Oumi to help any organization-regardless of size or resources-effectively build, deploy, and benefit from AI by lowering barriers to access, experimentation, and adoption.
Company info
- Oumi provides an end-to-end, AI-native platform to build custom AI models in hours, not months -automating the loop of evaluation, data synthesis, training, and repeat.
- Oumi also develops an open research stack and models in collaboration with academic collaborators and the open community.
- Our Approach: Oumi is built on a foundation of open source, with open collaboration at the heart of everything we do.
- Our work is:
- Research-driven: We conduct and publish original AI research, working closely with academic research labs and collaborators across the globe.
- Community-powered: We believe in the strength of open collaboration and actively welcome contributions from researchers and developers worldwide.
- Accessibility-focused: We design Oumi to help any organization-regardless of size or resources-effectively build, deploy, and benefit from AI by lowering barriers to access, experimentation, and adoption.
- Oumi is on a mission to make frontier AI truly open for all.
- We are founded on the belief that AI will have a transformative impact on humanity, and that developing it collectively, in the open, is the best path forward to ensure that it is done efficiently and safely.
- By providing the safest, highest quality, and most flexible AI, we aspire to unlock positive impact for every individual, enterprise, and humanity overall.
- Guide customers in designing, training, and deploying custom models using Oumi's platform, including data preparation, model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and production deployment.
- Lead applied AI work: Guide customers in designing, training, and deploying custom models using Oumi's platform, including data preparation, model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and production deployment.
- Build strong feedback loops between customers and Oumi's Product, Research, and Engineering teams to influence roadmap, prioritization, and platform improvements.
- Develop the technical demos, implementation patterns, enablement materials, and best practices that help both customers and internal teams succeed.
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