Head of AI Engineering, Agentic Systems

The Opportunity
Hard Carry Media is building a new AI-native platform at the intersection of creators, generative media and performance advertising, and we are looking for the founding technical leader to architect and build it.

This is a true zero-to-one opportunity. You will define the technical architecture, select the underlying technologies, build the first production system and ultimately build the engineering team around it.

The goal is to create an intelligent platform that uses agentic AI, generative media and real-time performance data to make creator advertising dramatically more scalable, measurable and effective.

You will have significant ownership over both what we build and how we build it.

What You'll Build
You will architect a platform that can:

Translate advertiser objectives into intelligent campaign workflows

Match campaigns with the creators most likely to perform

Orchestrate generative video, voice and digital-human technologies

Create and manage individualized creative workflows at scale

Incorporate creator permissions, brand requirements and human approvals

Ingest organic and paid-media performance data

Identify winning creators, creative concepts and executions

Recommend and generate new creative variations based on performance

Improve creator selection and creative decision-making as the system accumulates data

Over time, the goal is to build a proprietary intelligence layer that becomes smarter with every campaign.

What You'll Own

Define HCM's AI architecture and technical roadmap

Determine what should be built internally versus licensed or integrated

Personally build and ship the first working version of the platform

Design agentic workflows, orchestration, tool use, memory and state

Integrate leading LLMs, generative-media technologies and third-party platforms

Build the data infrastructure connecting creators, campaigns, creative and performance

Establish evaluation, monitoring, reliability, security and human-in-the-loop controls

Work directly with leadership, media and creative teams to turn business needs into scalable technology

Recruit and lead the engineering team as the platform grows

This is not a strategy-only or people-management role. We are looking for someone who wants to architect the system and personally help build the first version.

What We're Looking For

Significant software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production products

Deep hands-on experience building modern generative AI and LLM applications

Experience developing agentic systems involving orchestration, tool calling and external APIs

Strong Python and backend engineering skills

Experience designing reliable, observable and secure production AI systems

Strong understanding of experimentation, ranking, recommendation or optimization systems

Experience building zero-to-one products in fast-moving environments

Strong technical judgment, including knowing when AI is the right solution — and when it isn't

Particularly Relevant Experience
Experience in one or more of the following would be especially valuable:

AI agents or multi-agent systems

Generative video, voice or digital-human technology

Advertising technology or performance marketing platforms

Recommendation or matching systems

Creator or social platforms

Marketplace businesses

AI-native startups

Large-scale experimentation and optimization systems

Experience in media, entertainment or influencer marketing is not required