Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer
📍 Location: Ankara, Türkiye
💰 Salary: Competitive (top-tier compensation in Türkiye)
📈 Equity: 1%-3%
📈 Budget: ~$250k budget to build and grow your AI team
🛂 US Visa Sponsorship Opportunities
🎯 About the Role
As InfraStack AI’s AI Lab Lead, you’ll establish and lead our AI Engineering Lab in Ankara. This is a uniquely strategic role, where you’ll build from the ground up, recruiting and mentoring world-class AI engineers and researchers in Türkiye. With your dedicated hiring budget, you’ll have full autonomy to assemble a powerhouse team that will pioneer innovative AI products and capabilities, positioning InfraStack AI at the cutting edge of technology.
You’ll collaborate closely with leadership, driving ambitious technical roadmaps and shaping the vision for transformative AI products. Exceptional technical expertise, leadership, communication, and entrepreneurship are essential, as you’ll actively shape both our technical direction and company culture.
🛠️ What We’re Looking For:
- An exceptional technical leader with deep expertise in AI, ML, LLMs, AI agents, and advanced AI product development.
- Proven ability to hire, mentor, and lead elite technical talent and foster a high-performance engineering culture.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, capable of independently managing budgets, resources, and strategic initiatives.
- Passionate about building robust AI-driven solutions, with a sharp eye for developer experience and thoughtful product design.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas, motivate teams, and engage stakeholders.
💡 Role Highlights:
- Regular travel opportunities to our San Francisco and New York offices, fully sponsored by InfraStack AI.
- Access to leading global AI workshops and conferences, all expenses covered by InfraStack AI.
- Opportunity for InfraStack AI sponsorship for U.S. work authorization.
- Establish your own lab and office in Ankara, with a dedicated hiring budget (~$250K).
- Build, mentor, and lead an exceptional team, making a real impact on InfraStack AI’s strategic growth.
- Collaborate closely with the Founder & CEO, influencing long-term product and engineering vision.
- Exceptional career growth path: opportunity to expand into global engineering leadership.
🌟 Bonus Points:
- You previously led technical teams at high-performing startups or tech companies.
- You’re deeply involved in the AI or open-source communities.
- You have a strong track record of delivering AI products used by millions or recognized globally.
🌟 About InfraStack AI
InfraStack AI empowers Engineering Operations (Infra, DevOps, SRE, SecOps) with AI-driven autonomous workflows, transforming chaos into calm. We’re backed by top-tier venture partners, visionary founders, and builders from iconic companies.
We’re passionate creators, deeply committed to exceptional product design and developer experience. We obsess over details, creatively solve tough problems, and always keep developers at the center—while having fun along the way.
Join us, and let’s build the future together 🚀
