Ai Lead

Summary

Join Textile as their AI Lead and be at the forefront of their agent intelligence network. You will develop AI agent tooling, build demos, forge partnerships, and integrate AI into internal systems. Success involves delivering transformative AI capabilities and improving internal workflows. Within the first year, you will launch highly used AI agent tooling, build demo agents, create key partnerships, and make the team more AI-native. This role requires AI mastery, crypto-native understanding, experimentation excellence, strategic thinking, and influencing skills. Textile offers competitive compensation, equity, and benefits, promoting a fulfilling work-life balance.

Requirements

• AI Mastery: Strong experience working with LLMs, agent architectures, or other AI tooling. Proficiency with AI frameworks and tools (e.g., LangChain, OpenAI APIs, Hugging Face) required, and familiarity with crypto frameworks (RIG, Eliza, Virtuals) highly preferred
• Crypto-native: You have an intuitive understanding of crypto systems, have experience building in Web3, and are an active member of the web3 ecosystem on discord, twitter, and other platforms. You know how to plug into rapidly emerging communities
• Experimentation Excellence: Proven ability to design, test, and iterate AI-powered features with a rapid experimentation approach. You move fast, but with quality that makes your work effective experiments with clear results
• Strategic, Systems Thinking: Ability to architect AI solutions that make sense, taking into account the ecosystem of tools, rapidly changing landscape, and business goals
• Influencing skills: You not only have strong collaboration skills for a remote team, but a feel for how to help others adapt to new workflows, tools and technologies. You meet people where they are, communicate clearly and poignantly, and build great bridges for others to adapt your technologies and ideas easily

Responsibilities

• Launch highly used AI agent tooling – Develop foundational agent-building tools based on Textile's agent intelligence network that thousands of builders in the largest AI*Crypto frameworks (Eliza, RIG, Virtuals, etc.) build more intelligent and performant agents
• Build demo agents – That showcase the power and ease of Textile's agent intelligence network for agents, and contribute to the ecosystem
• Create key partners - Establish partnerships with leading AI builders and researchers and innovate alongside them to push the bounds of what’s possible
• Make our team more AI native – Identify and integrate AI-driven efficiencies into our organization, improving how teams experiment, build, and operate. For example you would create and own a chatgpt API that we use consistently and has our team’s memory, an agent that we use to manage support, etc
• Experiment Rapidly – Lead fast-cycle experiments to test AI-powered enhancements, driving a culture of iteration and learning

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with any part of our tech stack: onchain/web3, SQL, big data, NFTs/tokens, etc
• Leadership in driving team objectives, balancing business needs with team dynamics, and personal development
• A broader appreciation for the pioneers of computing and a personal investment in areas beyond technology

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Contribute to projects at the forefront of the web
• Work with a company on a mission to have a positive impact
• Work on a fully remote team
• Work with/on a small, passionate team
• An entrepreneurial opportunity where you can have oversized impacts
• Opportunity to drive innovation and strategy