AI Engineering Lead

Job Description

AI Engineering Lead

$200,000-$300,000 + LTI + Benefits

San Francisco, Remote US Based Options Available.

MBN Solutions are supporting an Applied AI start-up, based in San Francisco to find their next AI Engineering Lead.

The company builds the next of

personal AI —private, user-owned, and designed to run directly on people’s devices.

They require an AI

technical leader

(former CTO or senior tech lead of a consumer AI product) who shares our passion for

privacy and user sovereignty .

You’ll lead application development across

desktop, mobile, and future platforms , shaping how individuals interact with their own AI.

You’ll thrive here if you have:

✅ Experience deploying AI in real-world consumer products

✅ Strong grasp of modern model architectures, quantization & on-device optimization

✅ Hands-on familiarity with the open-source AI stack (e.g. lightweight inference runtimes, device-level ML frameworks)

✅ Deep knowledge of app ecosystems (especially Apple platforms)

✅ Background in system-level programming & performance tuning

✅ A product-minded, user-first approach

Bonus points for:

⭐ Contributions to open-source or research in AI/ML

⭐ Experience with trusted execution, enclaves, or privacy-preserving ML

If building

personal, private AI

excites you, we’d love to connect.

Apply now and help shape what’s next.