Director of AI Engineering

Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally. We are entering a hyper-growth phase of AI innovation and are hiring a Director of AI Engineering to lead the strategy, engineering execution, and cross-functional integration of Apollo’s applied AI systems.

Requirements

• 10–15+ years in software engineering, with significant leadership experience owning AI/ML or applied LLM systems at scale.
• Proven history shipping LLM-powered features, agentic workflows, or AI assistants used by real customers in production.
• Deep understanding of LLM orchestration frameworks, RAG pipelines, vector search, embeddings, and prompt engineering.
• Expert in backend & distributed systems (Python strongly preferred) and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
• Strong experience with telemetry, observability, and cost-aware real-time inference optimizations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead senior engineers, define technical roadmaps, and deliver outcomes aligned to business metrics.
• Experience building or scaling teams working on experimentation, optimization, personalization, or ML-powered growth systems.
• Exceptional ability to simplify complex problems, set clear standards, and drive alignment across Product, Data, Design, and Engineering.

Benefits

• Equity
• Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• Paid holidays
• Flex PTO
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits
• Global travel coverage
• Life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance
• FSA/HSA and medical, dental, and vision benefits