[Hiring] FRACTIONAL CTO / AI STRATEGY @Human Intelligence

Role Description

Seeking elite AI & architecture advisors — fractional CTO roles for hourly support.

Title: FRACTIONAL CTO / AI STRATEGY — Remote (Contractor)

Location: Remote — Global availability welcome, especially candidates located in offshore-friendly regions aligned with Western Europe, U.S., Canada, Australia, Latin America, Israel, Singapore, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia.

Employment type: Contractor

Who You Are

• You are a senior technical executive — CTO, Head of AI, or Principal/Distinguished Engineer.
• You excel in guiding AI product direction and high-stakes architectural decisions.
• You bring depth in AI deployment at scale, offer crisp, actionable guidance, and communicate with clarity.
• You can zoom out to strategy and zoom into technical details, producing artifacts that help leaders move quickly and safely.
• You share your experience in AI development, AI strategy, and scalable AI production systems to form strategies and accelerate the company’s AI roadmap and de-risk decision making.

Your Experience Includes

• LLM & Multi-Agent Systems (safety, evals, retrieval, tool-use, orchestration, cost/latency engineering)
• MLOps & Data Platforms (feature stores, pipelines, governance, labeling/feedback loops)
• AI in Regulated Health (privacy, DPIA/TRA, clinical safety, audit trails)
• SRE/Cloud Economics (SLOs, incident management, cost/performance tradeoffs)
• Security & Privacy (threat modeling for AI systems, secrets management, data minimization)
• Product & Growth (AI monetization, pricing, usage metering, partner integrations)

Your Responsibilities

• Provide clear advice-to-decision paths for new and extending projects.
• Propose or review AI strategy and implementation pathways.
• Reference architectures, playbooks, and guardrail policies; risk registers; buy/build/partner matrices; vendor RFPs.
• Conduct quality checks.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience; prior CTO/Head of AI/Distinguished AI Engineer; shipped AI at scale; strong communication skills.
• Extensive proof of Python & FAST API projects, utilizing extensive LLM APIs in production systems.
• Scaled AI/ML systems above 1M users.
• Handled (managed and built) complex data pipelines.

Nice-to-have

• Experience in regulated healthcare or clinical AI (privacy frameworks, DPIA, compliance, audit requirements).
• Prior advisory, fractional, consulting, or board-level support experience for engineering or AI teams.

Compensation

• Hourly Rate
• Engagement term: Typically 6–12 months with flexible scope and deliverables.
• Payment & contractor terms: Independent Contractor status only. Payment in USD via bank direct deposit. Hourly invoicing. No employee benefits.

How to apply

• Submit two artifacts you authored (ADR, design deck, audit, or similar) plus a short Loom explaining an AI decision you shaped and the measurable impact it produced.
• A 16-minute self-initiated AI video interview and personality profile survey result must be submitted.
• Selected candidates will join a short design review clinic and onboarding discussion.

Closing note

Join a curated council of senior experts influencing major AI architecture decisions. We prioritize clear thinking, high-impact guidance, and rapid decision cycles — please apply with artifacts and a concise Loom.