Fractional AI Platform Lead

About Forward

Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.

About the Work

Keywords: AI, Observability, Quality

Budget: $200-$300/h

Hours per week: 10

Term: 3-6 months

Location: U.S./Canada preferred, but open here

Working hours: 3-5 hours overlap with PT

Start date: Immediate

Company stage: Bootstrapped

Context:

We’re working with a bootstrapped company in the finance space that launched their app earlier this year and is already at a 7 figure run rate.

The team right now is two people, the CEO and the CTO. The CTO has a strong engineering background but limited AI exposure.

They’re looking for someone with experience orchestrating multi agent workflows, setting up / optimizing RAG, and most importantly with a lot of AI-focused observability + quality exposure.

We’ll be fast following here with a 40 hour / week engineer who’d be reporting into you and focused purely on execution.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have deep observability and quality experience in the AI Infra space
  • You have experience orchestrating multi-agent workflows
  • You have early stage startup experience
  • You have RAG experience
  • You have 10+ years experience

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