Head of AI

About the Role

Autonomize AI is revolutionizing healthcare by streamlining knowledge workflows with AI. We combine data and context to reduce administrative burden, elevate decision quality, and empower professionals to focus on what truly matters — improving lives. Our mission is to make knowledge workflows more efficient by seamlessly combining data and context. Our vision is a world where AI is a catalyst and an extension of human cognition, enabling organizations and individuals to achieve their maximum potential. We are growing rapidly and looking for exceptional builders who are energized by ambiguity, move with urgency, and want to solve some of healthcare’s hardest problems with AI.

We are seeking a Head of AI to lead the next phase of Autonomize’s AI strategy, research, and execution. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for turning emerging AI capabilities into reliable, scalable, production-grade systems that deliver real customer value.

Responsibilities

• Own Autonomize’s AI vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned to business and customer outcomes.
• Identify emerging AI opportunities and translate them into scalable product capabilities.
• Lead architecture decisions across machine learning, generative AI, LLM applications, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, and AI infrastructure.
• Establish technical standards for reliability, performance, safety, and scalability.
• Balance research velocity with production excellence.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing AI team.
• Drive AI initiatives from concept through deployment and measurable customer impact.
• Partner closely with Product, Clinical, Customer Success, and Operations teams to translate customer problems into AI solutions that create meaningful outcomes.
• Stay deeply connected to customer workflows and healthcare challenges to ensure AI solutions solve real-world problems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML systems in high-growth technology environments.
• Proven experience leading AI/ML teams and scaling technical organizations.
• Deep expertise in modern AI approaches including large language models (LLMs), retrieval augmented generation (RAG), agentic workflows, model evaluation and optimization, and ML infrastructure and production systems.
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to make architectural decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and high-growth environments.
• Exceptional communication skills with executives, engineers, customers, and cross-functional teams.
• Strong ownership mindset — you take responsibility from idea through impact.

Ideal Candidate Profile

You are someone who owns the entire outcome — not just your functional area, goes deep technically but knows when to zoom out and align teams, moves quickly while maintaining high standards, creates clarity in ambiguous environments, builds systems, teams, and processes that scale, challenges ideas respectfully and encourages open dialogue, and has relentless curiosity and continuously experiments.

Benefits

• A chance to make a real impact on the future of healthcare.
• The opportunity to build category-defining AI products.
• Significant ownership and autonomy in shaping AI strategy.
• A high-growth environment with exceptional technical challenges.
• Competitive compensation package with performance incentives.
• 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Retirement plans (401k), disability insurance, and employee assistance programs.