Head of AI (Tech Focused)

Position: Head of AI / Head of Applied AI

Work Mode: Full-time / Remote

Compensation: Base Salary + Bonus + Equity / Token Incentives

Base Salary Range: RMB 500,000 - 1,000,000 / year (approx. USD 70K - 140K)

Location Preference: APAC (Singapore, Thailand, or China)

Target Start: April 2026

About the Company

Our client is building an AI-powered intelligent trading terminal for the prediction market and on-chain trading ecosystem. The platform leverages AI to transform complex market data, on-chain signals, and information flows into clear, actionable insights for traders.

The Role

We are looking for a technically strong AI leader to own the AI strategy and execution for the platform. This role is hands-on and deeply technical, focused on designing and shipping AI-native product capabilities. Depending on seniority and fit, this person may lead the technical team or operate as a high-impact individual contributor integrated with the existing engineering organization. This is NOT a product manager role.

Key Responsibilities

1. Own the AI direction and roadmap: market interpretation, signal extraction, information summarization, intelligent alerting, and research workflow automation

2. Design and implement LLM, RAG/Retrieval, Tool Calling, and Agent Workflow solutions, integrating with multi-source data (market, on-chain, news, user behavior)

3. Collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams to ship AI features from concept to production

4. Establish evaluation, monitoring, and iteration frameworks balancing effectiveness, stability, latency, cost, and controllability

5. Hands-on participation in system architecture, technology selection, and core module development

Requirements

1. 5+ years of software engineering or AI application development experience

2. Proven experience building AI products from 0-to-1 or scaling from 1-to-N in production environments

3. Deep familiarity with LLM applications, Prompt/Workflow design, RAG, Agents, Tool Use, and Structured Output paradigms

4. Real-world experience in AI evaluation, monitoring, and optimization in production systems

5. Strong software engineering fundamentals

6. Strong product sense and ability to drive AI initiatives from a business value perspective

7. Good communication skills in both Chinese and English

Strong Plus

• Core experience at a leading AI unicorn (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, ByteDance AI Lab, Moonshot, Baichuan, etc.) or a top fintech AI division

• Experience building AI evaluation systems, monitoring frameworks, quality gates, or rollback mechanisms

• Player-coach leadership style: able to both execute hands-on and establish team standards

• Experience in trading, fintech, crypto, or real-time data systems

Important Notes

• This role is primarily technical, NOT a product management position

• APAC timezone

• Crypto/Web3 experience is preferred but not mandatory

• Management scope is flexible based on candidate's capability