Are you the one?
Lead end-to-end client engagements to design, deliver, and transition production-grade AI agent systems. You’ll translate ambiguous business needs into concrete roadmaps, assemble and lead the delivery team, and hand over a stable operation to appointed team leads before rotating to the next engagement. Clients will include both large institutions and blockchain-native companies, so interest in decentralized systems and emerging fintech is a plus. You combine deep, pragmatic LLM expertise with product sense and cost discipline.
What you’ll do
- Client discovery & scoping: Run workshops to clarify goals, workflows, constraints, and success metrics; define MVP vs. phase-2 scope and acceptance criteria.
- Solution architecture: Choose the right approach (RAG vs. fine-tune vs. instruct-only; single- vs. multi-agent; orchestration strategies) with a clear rationale and risk plan.
- Reliability by design: Establish evals, guardrails, and observability (structured outputs, deterministic fallbacks, human-in-the-loop).
- Cost & performance modeling: Build token/latency/TCO models for training and inference; plan capacity, caching, and vendor/infra trade-offs to hit SLA and budget.
- Team formation: Stand up the delivery squad (LLM/ML engineers, backend, data, UX, PM), appoint durable team leads for ongoing run-state.
- Delivery leadership: Drive execution across POC → pilot → production; keep stakeholders aligned with clear communication and artifacts.
- Training strategy: Decide when/if to train models (LoRA, fine-tune, distillation) vs. using existing foundation models.
- Governance & compliance: Integrate data governance, security, and version control into system design.
- Transition & handover: Execute structured Build–Operate–Transfer: runbooks, documentation, dashboards, and knowledge transfer.
- Commercials & pre-sales: Contribute to proposals, estimates, and ROI cases; present to executive and non-technical audiences.
Qualifications
- Strong background in project management and systems architecture (5+ years total across both, not necessarily in AI).
- Proven track record leading cross-functional technical teams from scoping through delivery.
- Exposure to building or integrating AI/ML or data-intensive systems, ideally including LLM-based products.
- Familiarity with the LLM landscape: prompt/program design, tool use/function calling, retrieval strategies, eval methodologies, and guardrails.
- Understanding of model training options (instruction-tuning, LoRA/adapters, preference optimization) and when training is justified.
- Financial/ops acumen: able to build TCO models and capacity plans; comfortable with cloud/infra vendor trade-offs.
- Excellent client-facing communication skills.
Nice to have
- Hands-on familiarity with AI/LLM tools (LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector DBs, OpenAI/Anthropic/Mistral APIs).
- Experience with enterprise integrations (Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, etc.).
- Interest in blockchain systems and Web3 infrastructure, ideally with exposure to smart contracts, dApps, or decentralized governance.
- Background in consulting, professional services, or Build–Operate–Transfer models.
What We Offer/ Benefits
- Flexible Work Options: Remote-first culture with the opportunity to work from anywhere.
- Global and Diverse Workforce: You'll work with people from various backgrounds and cultures.
- Learning and Development: You'll work on innovative, challenging projects and have access to experts and mentors to enhance your skills.
- Career Growth: Access to training, mentorship, and opportunities to contribute to open-source initiatives.
- Global Events and Conferences: Opportunities to attend the industry events.
Our Commitment to Diversity
At Nethermind, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members. We believe a variety of perspectives drives innovation and leads to better solutions for the blockchain community.
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