Build the future of AI with us
Are you a technical leader who excels at both managing complex AI delivery programs and contributing production-grade code? Join us in revolutionizing how companies build and how people work by leading transformative AI initiatives at A.Team.
About A.Team
A.Team powers the world's most ambitious companies with elite tech talent and ready-to-deploy AI solutions. We've helped over 500 organizations like Lyft, McGraw Hill, and Grindr build their future faster through our AI-driven platform that precision-matches initiatives with experts from our network of 11,000+ pre-vetted engineers, data scientists, product leaders and more.
Backed by $60M from Insight Partners and supported by Adam Grant and Jay-Z's Roc Nation, we're on a mission to empower passionate builders to do the work they care about on their own terms.
Your Mission & Impact
As A.Team’s first AI Delivery Lead/ Architect, you'll own the full delivery lifecycle of complex, multi-workstream AI programs while contributing production-grade code to A.Team's AI Solutions Platform. Your mission is to design the delivery framework that scales our consulting model while maintaining your identity as an elite hands-on engineer.
Anticipated salary band: $165,000 USD - $250,000 USD, commensurate with experience.
Role Overview:
Architect and deploy cutting-edge AI solutions tailored to multiple verticals.
Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering strong collaboration, accountability, and growth
Drive accountability of milestones and project execution, ensuring alignment with internal and external roadmaps
Establish quality gates—code review, automated tests, model-card compliance
Ability to drive cross-functional conversation and work seamlessly across departments to deliver against both internal and external timelines to align business and delivery outcomes
Establish the playbook for A.Team's AI delivery for client projects — scope, plan, and run 3-6 concurrent projects (LLM apps, MLOps, RAG, agent orchestration)
Orchestrate reusability across multiple missions
Embed A.Team engineering into deployed missions to gather industry/vertical-specific domain knowledge
About You
Former Senior Software Engineer, Solutions Architect, or equivalent, with demonstrated success in designing and implementing complex AI solutions
Extensive experience in AI development, including successful implementations in analytics, machine learning models, and cloud architectures, including end-to-end delivery in enterprise or regulated settings.
Proven comfort and effectiveness in client-facing roles, including conducting presentations, facilitating discovery sessions, and engaging in technical discussions at the executive level
Strong Leadership skills with experience in both managing and mentoring engineering talent across time zones
Consultative, client-facing ability to translate business problems into technical solutions – success in this role requires engaging with enterprise stakeholders, defining success metrics, and leading iterative delivery in sprints. It's not just about building models, but about co-designing AI systems that fit workflows and earn adoption
Entrepreneurial mindset, driven by mission-focused initiatives and passionate about delivering technology that creates measurable business impact
Project management capability to drive accountability across engineering teams to deliver against deadlines and milestones
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field (Master's degree preferred)
10+ years of professional experience building cutting-edge software with client-facing experience; experience with AI a must
Demonstrated ability to manage and mentor cross-functional teams
Life @ A.Team
A supportive team that has your back: you'll be working with empathetic, entrepreneurial co-workers who are all deeply motivated by our mission to change the future of work.
Extensive resources and tools to help you succeed and achieve your own personal goals.
Competitive compensation: attractive base compensation complemented by performance-based incentives.
Unlimited time off: take the time you need to relax and recover so that you can bring your A game every day
At A.Team, we believe diverse teams create better products and experiences. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
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What We Do
A.Team is the first members-only network of the world’s top engineers, product managers, designers, and marketing talent, designed to help growing companies accelerate product development through the power of great teams. A.Teamers come together as cloud-based, modular teams on our team formation platform to work on problems they care about for forward-thinking companies—with the freedom, flexibility, and autonomy they crave.
Over the last two years, we've grown exponentially — scaling to over 5,000 independent builders and over 250 teams deployed on missions across 35+ industries for startups, mid-market and public companies. A.Teams are building the future of vaccine manufacturing for Apprentice, the next generation of education on mobile for McGraw Hill, a revolutionary model for brick-and-mortar with Blank Street, and much more.
We’re creating a new builder economy that will transform the way people work and companies build, and we’ve brought together an incredible team of people to help us do that—raising a $55 million Series A with investors like Insight Partners, Tiger, and Spruce House; future-of-work pioneers like Adam Grant, Dan Ariely and Joseph Fuller; and cultural leaders like Jay-Z’s RocNation, and founders and execs from CAA, Apollo, Upwork, Fiverr, and SpaceX.
If you’d like to build great things with great people, get in touch.
