Overview

MBN Solutions are supporting an Applied AI start-up, based in San Francisco to find their next AI Engineering Lead. The company builds the next generation of personal AI—private, user-owned, and designed to run directly on people’s devices. They require an AI technical leader (former CTO or senior tech lead of a consumer AI product) who shares our passion for privacy and user sovereignty. You’ll lead application development across desktop, mobile, and future platforms, shaping how individuals interact with their own AI.

Responsibilities

• Lead application development across desktop, mobile, and future platforms, shaping how individuals interact with their own AI.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying AI in real-world consumer products
• Strong grasp of modern language model architectures, quantization & on-device optimization
• Hands-on familiarity with the open-source AI stack (e.g. lightweight inference runtimes, device-level ML frameworks)
• Deep knowledge of native app ecosystems (especially Apple platforms)
• Background in system-level programming & performance tuning
• Contributions to open-source or research in AI/ML
• Experience with trusted execution, enclaves, or privacy-preserving ML

Job details

• Position: AI Engineering Lead
• Location: San Francisco, Remote US Based Options Available
• Base pay range: $200,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr
• Employer: MBN Solutions on behalf of a San Francisco start-up
• Seniority level: Director
• Employment type: Full-time