Head of AI Architecture

About WerQ AI & This Opportunity:

At WerQ AI, we're building the world's first Career Intelligence & Relationship Management (CIRM™) platform, to put professionals at the center of their own career ecosystem. With deep agentic AI designed to work for you, not against you, we automate repetitive and tedious workflows, freeing your time to focus on what truly matters: your skill growth, your connections, and future-proofing your career.

We entered beta last month and are actively enhancing our platform with valuable feedback from our early testers. As we prepare for our public launch and raise our seed round (expected to close in February 2025), we're planning to build our team. Applying now allows us to connect early, streamline interviews, and have a rapid onboarding process once funding is secured. If you're excited to help shape the future of work that is more people-centered, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Role:

As an AI Architect, you will be responsible for shaping and refining the AI foundation that powers WerQ AI's platform. This includes architecting and implementing the agentic AI engines, generative models for resume and job matching, and intelligent skill assessments for our gamified learning environment. You'll collaborate with product, data engineering, and infrastructure teams to ensure that AI models are performant, scalable, and ethical—delivering maximum value to our users.

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• AI Architecture & Strategy: Define and own the end-to-end AI strategy, including model selection, data pipelines, and infrastructure
• Model Development: Design and implement NLP, generative AI, and recommendation systems to support resume tailoring, job matching, and skill mastery feedback loops
• Collaboration with Data Teams: Work closely with Data Engineers and Data Scientists to ensure the platform's data ingestion, transformation, and storage pipelines are robust, secure, and optimized for AI training and inference
• Performance & Scalability: Optimize model performance, latency, and cost, ensuring the platform can handle spikes in user engagement and large-scale data
• AI Governance & Compliance: Incorporate best practices around AI ethics, bias detection, and compliance with data privacy regulations
• R&D Leadership: Stay current with the latest AI research and industry trends to continually evolve WerQ AI's capabilities
• Technical Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers and data scientists, fostering a culture of learning and innovation
• Architect-Level AI Experience: Hands-on expertise in designing and deploying large-scale AI/ML systems, preferably with NLP or generative models
• Deep Technical Knowledge: Proficiency in Python and frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face. Knowledge of MLOps, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
• Data Pipeline Integration: Strong understanding of data engineering best practices (ETL, data lakes, real-time streaming)
• Model Lifecycle Management: Experience with model versioning, continuous training, automated deployments, and monitoring
• AI Ethics & Compliance: Familiarity with regulatory considerations, bias detection, and fairness in AI
• Strong Communication Skills: Ability to break down complex AI concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  
  

Who You Are (Culture & Value Fit):

• Visionary & Forward-Thinking: You anticipate the future of AI and proactively explore emerging technologies
• Collaborative & Empathetic: You enjoy working cross-functionally to create user-centric AI solutions that genuinely help people
• Ethical & Responsible: You prioritize fairness, transparency, and compliance when deploying AI systems that impact careers
• Curious & Adaptable: You thrive in fast-paced environments and use new information to refine strategies and technical approaches
  
  

What You Can Do (Experience & Expertise):

• Drive the creation and implementation of our AI strategy from the ground up, taking ownership of designing and deploying innovative solutions that transition ideas from concept to scalable, production-ready systems
• Agentic AI
• Python
• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• Keras
• Hugging Face
• Transformers
• Spark
• Hadoop
• GCP
• NLP
• NLU
• ETL
• SQL
• LLMs
• GCP
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Quantization
• Pruning
• Distributed training
• Tokenization
• Conversational AI
• Autonomous AI
  
  
  

Benefits

Why Join Us:

• Impact on the Future of Work: Build AI systems that empower people to manage their careers with greater intelligence, efficiency, and empathy
• Innovative & Mission-Driven Team: Collaborate with passionate colleagues who value creativity, curiosity, and personal growth
• Ownership & Influence: Be a key decision-maker shaping how AI is developed and integrated into a platform used by thousands (and eventually millions)
• Growth & Advancement: Join at a crucial stage, with significant opportunities for career progression as we scale
  
  

Salary

$150,000 - $220,000

Benefits:

• Fully Remote & Flexible Work Schedule (Work from anywhere in the world on your own terms.)
• Unlimited PTO
• Health, Dental, & Vision Insurance premiums fully covered by the company
• Growth Opportunities (Join a fast-growing startup and shape the future of AI-partnered career management.)
  
  
  

Want to Learn More About Us? Join our WerQ Ai Discord Community!

Our product is currently in beta, and the Discord is where we connect with people interested in what we're developing. Some are even beta testing the platform right now as we work to reshape the the future of work and make a meaningful difference for professionals. Whether you're applying for this role or just curious about what we're building, we'd love to have you there!

Join Our Discord: https://discord.gg/XzxkxzwmZb