Head of AI Engineering, Agentic Systems

Hard Carry Media•Los Angeles, CA

13h•$200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Hard Carry Media is building a new AI-native platform at the intersection of creators, generative media, and performance advertising. They are looking for the founding technical leader to architect and build this platform. This is a zero-to-one opportunity where the individual will define the technical architecture, select technologies, build the first production system, and ultimately grow the engineering team. The goal is to create an intelligent platform using agentic AI, generative media, and real-time performance data to make creator advertising more scalable, measurable, and effective. The role offers significant ownership over both the product and the development process.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Architect a platform that can translate advertiser objectives into intelligent campaign workflows.
Match campaigns with 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.
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.