# Technical Lead Manager, AI Platform at Paraform

- Company: Paraform
- What the company does: Paraform | The #1 Agentic Hiring Platform & Recruiter Marketplace. Backed by Felicis.
- Company website: https://www.paraform.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $260K to $340K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-14
- Apply by: 2026-11-28
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paraform/b4c9618a-afb1-4d34-bbca-ffc68f4abbd9?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/paraform-technical-lead-manager-ai-platform-2/

## About the role

We have 20 engineers and more than $100M in ARR, and we're scaling the engineering team roughly 3x over the next year. The AI Platform team is where our data advantage becomes product: it owns the matching, ranking, and agentic systems that decide which recruiter sees which role, which candidate reaches which company, and how much of the hiring process runs without a human touching it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Staff-level IC depth in ML or applied AI: you're the person others pull in when the problem is genuinely hard, and you've stayed technical while leading
- 1+ years managing or formally tech-leading engineers (Tech Lead Manager) or 4+ years including setting technical direction across multiple teams (Technical Director)
- You've shipped production ML or LLM systems used by real people at scale: retrieval, ranking, recommendation, agentic workflows, or similar
- Eval-driven: you know how to measure model quality against business outcomes, not just offline benchmarks, and you can tell a real win from noise
- Data-fluent: you can pull your own SQL, sanity-check an experiment readout, and push back on a bad metric
- AI fluency is a floor here, not a differentiator. You use AI tools in your own work and you know how to raise a team's leverage with them

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/paraform-technical-lead-manager-ai-platform-2/