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Global Unlimited PTO

  • Define and continuously refine a company-wide technical vision for autonomous, agentic SDLC that aligns with GitLab's product strategy and engineering architecture.
  • Lead hands-on experiments and prototypes to validate where agentic workflows can fully own or materially reshape engineering tasks, targeting 10x productivity gains.
  • Mentor senior engineers and drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure teams on complex, ambiguous technical challenges.

AI/ML Software Engineering Distributed Systems Mentoring Leadership

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US

  • Lead the Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution teams across frontend, backend, and AI engineering.
  • Partner with product and UX to turn ambiguous problems into shipped milestones and make prioritization tradeoffs explicit.
  • Contribute substantively to technical design for running agents safely and effectively at scale.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trusting them, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values, continuous knowledge exchange, and AI integration.

Poland

  • Own the technical thesis for validating agent-generated software and build early proof of concept.
  • Design mid-loop feedback mechanisms that help agents self-correct toward working software.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to adopt and measure trust in agentic development.

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and reduce security and compliance risk. With over 50 million registered users and trust from more than 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values and continuous knowledge exchange.

$180,000–$200,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Provide technical leadership for designing scalable, AI-integrated software solutions and guiding a distributed team.
  • Architect robust AI agents and APIs, refine prompt strategies, and decompose complex features into clear tasks.
  • Mentor developers on AI tool adoption and clean code practices, optimizing DevOps pipelines for efficiency.

Mitratech builds world-class products simplifying operations in Legal, Risk, Compliance, and HR functions. They serve 20,000 client companies globally, including 30% of the Fortune 500, with a diverse and inclusive culture focused on learning and fun.

Colombia

  • Lead the design and delivery of agentic-first capabilities within Nexus Repository Manager.
  • Set technical direction for a major product area and orchestrate fleets of agents across parallel workstreams.
  • Work on the hardest problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and software supply chain security.

Sonatype is the software supply chain security company, providing end-to-end security solutions that combine proactive protection against malicious open source, enterprise-grade SBOM management, and the leading open source dependency management platform. Over 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100 and 15 million software developers, rely on Sonatype, and the company values diversity, inclusivity, and offers flexible working practices.

$160,020–$172,720/yr
EMEA

  • Lead and mentor an engineering organization of senior, staff, and principal engineers, driving technical strategy and roadmap execution.
  • Embed AI-first operational strategy using modern tools like Claude Code to accelerate delivery and improve system resiliency.
  • Align cross-functionally with executive stakeholders to translate complex technical concepts into clear business opportunities.

Panopto is the most customer-centric learning technology company, empowering organizations to share knowledge through video. We are a global team of high-caliber engineers focused on elevating the craft and delivering impactful solutions.

Canada Europe Central America South America

  • Own Toptal's full technical architecture and build it AI-first, driving execution for product and engineering teams.
  • Set technical direction, hold cadenced meetings, and be hands-on in design reviews and code.
  • Lead resourcing, workforce planning, and hiring of A-players with urgency, while developing the team against high standards.

Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology, enabling companies to scale their teams on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members around the globe, it is the world's largest fully remote workforce.

$221,200–$387,100/yr
North America

  • Lead the architecture and direction of a group of Forward Deployed Engineers building autonomous intelligence systems.
  • Translate customer use cases into precise specifications and direct AI agents to generate production code.
  • Engineer context for reliable agent output and verify code correctness, security, and maintainability.

ServiceNow provides an AI platform for business reinvention, automating workflows to free people from busywork. They serve 85% of the Fortune 500 and foster an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together.

AI Engineer

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Global Unlimited PTO

  • Build the agent execution runtime: Design and ship the layer that compiles a brief into a running team of agents.
  • Design the tool surface agents work through: Replace "here is a shell, please be careful" with typed, versioned toolpacks.
  • Make quality measurable, then improve it: Build the evals, benchmarks, and metric sets that score a run.

Ditto is redefining how data moves at the edge by providing a peer-to-peer sync engine for developers to build resilient, real-time applications without internet. With over $145 million in funding and trusted by organizations like Chick-fil-A and Delta Airlines, we are a globally distributed startup committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

Philippines

  • Architect and implement multi-agent systems using Google ADK for production-ready AI workflows.
  • Integrate custom tools and APIs, including MCP, to build deterministic graph-based agentic logic.
  • Deploy and scale optimized agents on Agent Engine (GCP) while ensuring high availability and low latency.

TTEC Digital coaches clients to ensure their employees feel valued, supporting an employee-first approach to customer experience. With 1,800+ employees, the company has been certified as a Great Place To Work and values diversity and inclusion.

Global

  • Own Toptal's AI product strategy, deciding where agents and models belong across the marketplace and internal systems.
  • Establish the product operating model and metrics, driving decisions with evidence and user research.
  • Build and lead an exceptional product team, setting hiring bars and developing talent.

Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members around the globe, Toptal is the world's largest fully remote workforce, fostering innovation and fun.

$170,000–$278,000/yr
US

  • Drive the evolution of LinkedIn's web experiences by building AI-powered agents, dashboards, and self-service workflows.
  • Partner with Web Marketing, Martech, and Engineering to identify high-value opportunities and create scalable solutions.
  • Lead solution design from concept through adoption, establishing reusable frameworks and best practices.

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. The company employs thousands of people globally and fosters a culture of trust, care, inclusion, and fun.

$36,000–$60,000/yr
India

  • Architect and develop Agentic AI and Generative AI systems from concept to production.
  • Build multi-step reasoning agents, tool/function-calling workflows, and multi-agent architectures.
  • Mentor and lead AI/ML and backend engineers, establishing engineering best practices.

The company is a client in the software development industry, focusing on technology and information. The team size and culture are not specified.

Global

  • Lead AI-assisted development as an ongoing experiment, adopting shared standards and building the team's discipline around clear context and human judgment.
  • Build, grow, and retain a strong engineering team while managing complex cross-team programs and holding tight to launch delivery deadlines.
  • Own reliability, cost, and change leadership, ensuring operational excellence and smooth transitions during reorganizations or acquisitions.

Sphera provides enterprise software and services that help companies manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety, and sustainability. They are a rapidly expanding team backed by Blackstone, guided by values of customer centricity, accountability, and collaboration.

$180,000–$250,000/yr
Global

  • Work directly with leading AI labs and enterprises to define research goals and technical requirements.
  • Build data intelligence systems and implement ML pipelines for data curation, model training, and evaluation.
  • Develop LLM applications, including multi-agent systems, RAG workflows, and evaluation harnesses.

Our client is a venture-backed AI company building intelligent systems by combining human expertise with machine learning. With over $40 million in funding and a global expert network, they provide critical infrastructure for AI development.

Global

  • Embed with customers to understand workflows, constraints, and success measures, then turn operational problems into technical plans.
  • Design, build, and deploy AI agents that integrate with customer tools, data, and business processes from prototype to production.
  • Measure real-world impact, iterate based on evidence, and share reusable patterns across deployments.

DehazeLabs transforms complex enterprise workflows into AI agents that operate in real-world environments. The company is a growing startup focused on applied AI, with a culture that blends engineering, product, and customer delivery.

US Unlimited PTO 14w maternity 14w paternity

  • Lead a cross-functional delivery team spanning product, engineering, data, AI, and security from discovery through operational deployment.
  • Translate mission needs into clear technical plans, establish priorities, and resolve risks across multiple specialties.
  • Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing technical organization, ensuring integrated, secure, and repeatable delivery.

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. DEFCON AI, a Red Cell company, leverages AI for resilient optimization of complex systems, with a team focused on delivering decision-support capabilities for the federal government.