Head of AI Engineering

Director of Talent Acquisition at CommerceIQ

Company Overview : CommerceIQ’s AI-powered digital commerce platform is revolutionizing the way brands sell online. Our unified ecommerce management solutions empower brands to make smarter, faster decisions through insights that optimize the digital shelf, increase retail media ROI and fuel incremental sales across the world’s largest marketplaces. With a global network of more than 900 retailers, our end-to-end platform helps 2,200+ of the world’s leading brands streamline marketing, supply chain, and sales operations to profitably grow market share in more than 50 countries. 10 out of the top 12 CPG brands work with us, including Coca-Cola, Nestle, Colgate-Palmolive, and Mondelez. We’ve raised over $200M from some of the top investors including SoftBank, Insight Partners, and Madrona. Learn more at commerceiq.ai.

The Role : We're looking for an Engineering Leader with a Data Science / Machine Learning background to head the incubation of CommerceIQ’s next generation of AI-driven SaaS solutions. The Head of AI Engineering is both hands‑on and leadership‑focused : you will act as a player‑coach, directly shaping the technical architecture of our AI platform while building and mentoring a team of engineers.

What You'll Do :

• Partner directly with the cofounders to set and execute the AI engineering strategy.
• Hire, lead, and mentor a founding AI engineering team within our incubation group, growing both technical depth and organizational capability.
• Act as a player‑coach : contribute hands‑on to architecture, model training, and backend engineering while scaling a team around you.
• Design and build scalable ML infrastructure to support model training, fine‑tuning, deployment, and monitoring at production scale.
• Lead the development of agentic applications, including designing, training, and launching agents that operate in real‑world customer environments.
• Establish best practices for data quality, labeling, and ML pipelines, enabling rapid experimentation and continuous improvement.
• Drive responsible AI development by ensuring reliability, ethics, safety, and performance in all models and agents shipped to production.
• Collaborate closely with product, data science, and business stakeholders to translate research breakthroughs into customer‑facing features.
• Set engineering standards and build a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and accountability.

What You'll Bring :

Base pay range : $260,000 - $310,000 per year. This role also qualifies for an annual bonus and initial equity package in the form of stock options.

Benefits :

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other category prohibited by applicable law.

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