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