# Head of AI at Highlight

- Company: Highlight
- What the company does: Highlight is AI that captures what matters across your meetings, screen, and tools, then drafts the follow-ups where your work happens. Free to start. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://highlightai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco office
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/highlightai/94b9a2fc-afba-4dd3-9967-d8084ec65f45
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/highlight-head-of-ai/

## About the role

We're hiring a Head of AI Engineering to lead and scale our ML and AI efforts as we build the engine that powers Highlight. You'll own the architecture, quality, and roadmap for how we ingest, model, and surface context, starting from data pipelines and evals to the context graph that makes our system truly useful. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll write code, set technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with Backend and Product teams to ship features that feel like magic.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years in ML/AI engineering, with 3+ years leading teams or major technical initiatives
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Applied Math or equivalent experience
- Published research (or experience shipping to production) in knowledge graphs, memory systems, retrieval, or continual learning
- Experience working at top AI labs (e.g. DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta FAIR, xAI) or leading AI application companies (e.g. Google, Cursor, Perplexity)
- Strong architectural chops: you've designed and scaled ML infrastructure from scratch
- Hands-on proficiency with modern ML stacks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, RAG, vector DBs, cloud infra)

Tags: Engineering