The AI Staff Engineer owns Nauta’s AI and innovation strategy across every initiative: agents, the context brain, Hodor’s ML, and new capabilities: where Nauta’s AI goes next and which bets are worth making. This is technology strategy, not product roadmap: Product Lead Agents decides what clients get; this role decides which AI capabilities power it.
This role chairs the biweekly AI guild, aligning standards and reviewing costs with Research, builders, and the Staff Engineer. Like the Staff Engineer, this is a technical authority role with no direct reports.
What you’ll do
- Own the AI and innovation strategy across every initiative at Nauta: agents, the context brain, Hodor’s ML, and new capabilities
- Chair the biweekly AI guild: align standards and review LLM/infra costs with Research, builders, and the Staff Engineer
- Decide which AI capabilities power what Product Lead Agents puts on the roadmap
- Evaluate and recommend AI platform bets: new models, frameworks, or architectures worth adopting company-wide
- Partner with the Staff Engineer as a complement: this role decides where AI goes, the Staff Engineer ensures what’s built scales
- Watch for the AI Platform Pod trigger: duplicated ML tooling, or LLM spend past ~$15–$20K/month, and flag it to leadership early
- Stay current on model releases, evals tooling, and agentic architectures relevant to Nauta’s roadmap
Who you are
- Deep technical expertise in AI/ML systems, LLM-powered architectures, and agentic workflows
- Strategic thinker: can evaluate technology bets, not just implement them
- Comfortable operating without direct reports: influence through technical clarity and judgment
- Experience with cost-aware AI infrastructure decisions (token costs, model selection tradeoffs)
- Strong communicator: can chair a cross-functional guild
- Spanish and English required
Nice to have
- Experience building or scaling an internal AI platform or shared AI infrastructure team
- Background in agent orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, or similar)
- Experience in supply chain, logistics, or B2B operations
About Nauta
Nauta is your AI partner, powered by an AI operational brain. Nauta reads how your company works: your email, your documents, your rules. Then AI agents do the daily work, like reading every document, checking invoices and chasing what’s missing. You stay in control.