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Head of Applied AI
San Francisco · Staff+
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About the role
- This is both a technical and organizational leadership role.
Responsibilities
- Lead the team building production AI agents and intelligence systems for clinical and operational workflows
- Own Latent Agent, our evaluation framework, and the shared foundations for new AI use cases
- Establish evaluation practices that drive product, technical, and business decisions
- Make pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions across models, prompting, agent infrastructure, and post-training
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to define priorities, metrics, and ownership
- Guide technical direction while empowering technical leads and senior engineers to own execution
- Build, hire, and develop a high-performing team with clear expectations and regular feedback
- Create predictable, visible execution without adding process for its own sake
- Own the reliability of live AI systems, including monitoring, failure handling, and service-level objectives
- Engineers work closely with Product and customer-facing teams to understand the problem, build the solution, and own the outcome in production.
Requirements
- You have built and shipped production-grade LLM agents, not only prototypes or research systems
- You have owned live production systems, including on-call responsibilities, reliability, and service-level objectives
- You have trained or fine-tuned a model, shipped it, and measured its impact against product or business outcomes
- You have strong judgment about when to post-train a model, prompt engineer, improve the agent harness, or use an off-the-shelf capability
Benefits
- Latent builds clinical intelligence that helps health systems run complex pharmacy operations, giving patients access to the medications they need and helping care teams focus on serving patients.
- The work spans healthcare workflows, enterprise software, and applied AI.
Company info
- We treat evaluations as a core part of product development.
- We are hiring a Head of Applied AI to lead the team building the AI capabilities that power Latent's products.
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