# 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: $250K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paraform/301b3163-a3fb-40e1-bfb1-fcd992046e0d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/paraform-technical-lead-manager-ai-platform/

## 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.

## 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