Technical Lead Manager, AI Platform

What this role involves

This is a Technical Lead Manager role for the AI Platform team at paraform, a company with 15 engineers and over $100M in ARR. The role involves managing a pod of applied AI and ML engineers while staying hands-on in core ML work, including matching, ranking, and agentic systems. The position requires staff-level IC depth in ML or applied AI, with at least 1+ years of management experience or 4+ years of technical direction setting.

Skills this posting asks for

• ml
• applied ai
• llm
• retrieval
• ranking
• recommendation
• agentic workflows
• sql
• data labeling
• feature engineering
• embedding design
• model selection
• training
• fine-tuning
• eval frameworks
• trust & safety
• fraud detection
• spam detection
• quality/cost/latency optimization

Requirements

• 1 years of experience
• Level: lead

From the employer’s posting

THE ROLE We have 15 engineers and more than $100M in ARR, and we're scaling the engineering team roughly 3x over the next year. The AI Platform team is where our data advantage becomes product: it owns the matching, ranking, and agentic systems that decide which recruiter sees which role, which ca…