Job Description
Role Overview
This is the pod’s most critical hire. You set the technical direction for every piece of AI work at Kissht - architecture, integration patterns, evaluation infrastructure, and the call between vendor APIs and self-hosted models. When someone asks “how do we do AI engineering here?”, the answer is yours to give.
Responsibilities - building and delivery
- AI platform architecture: LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, context engineering, evaluation harnesses, observability.
- Build-vs-buy technical calls, in partnership with other stakeholders.
- Engineering standards for AI work across Kissht: how we prompt, evaluate, monitor, and iterate.
- Technical vendor evaluations: API testing, latency and accuracy benchmarks, integration complexity, red-flag surfacing.
- Mentoring the two SDE-2 Builders and the Data Engineer. You set the quality bar.
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