Head of Engineering

Overview

About WYLE

The Role

You Will Own

• The full technical architecture end-to-end: AI pipelines, data layer, real-time infrastructure, APIs, and cloud
• Multi-model AI orchestration across providers: routing, fallback, tool use, and structured output at scale
• Agentic and multi-agent systems: intent classification, task decomposition, planning, and execution at production reliability
• Retrieval and memory systems: context representation, knowledge retrieval, and hybrid search at scale
• On-device intelligence: low-latency, privacy-preserving inference for real-time user interactions
• Voice AI: real-time audio processing pipelines with sub-200ms response latency
• Platform integrations: email, calendar, messaging, and third-party services
• Cloud infrastructure: scalable, cost-efficient, production-grade from day one
• Engineering standards, sprint execution, and the technical hiring roadmap
• Applied R&D that ships directly into production, gets measured, and improves over time

You Have

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering, with complex systems shipped to real users
• Minimum 3 years in a technical leadership role where you stayed deeply in the code
• Deep production experience with large language model APIs: real reliability requirements, not demos or prototypes
• Hands-on experience building retrieval and memory systems at scale, including graph-based and sparse retrieval approaches
• Experience deploying small language models and quantized inference in production environments
• Strong backend engineering across high-performance, low-latency service architectures
• Real-time systems experience: streaming data, event pipelines, and push infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI system design and multi-agent coordination in production
• Cloud infrastructure ownership at scale: containerisation, orchestration, CI/CD, and monitoring
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, early-stage environments, and high ownership cultures
• Currently operating as a Head of Engineering, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or equivalent

Compensation

• In this phase:
• This role is equity-first until product launch, approximately 3 months away
• Salary: AED 30,000 to 40,000 per month, starting post launch
• UAE Residence Visa and health insurance from day one
• This role is designed for builders who want ownership over outcomes, not just compensation certainty.

Why Join Us

• Because you don’t just want to build models, you want to build the intelligence engine of a new kind of everyday platform in the region.
• You'll define the architecture of a platform that handles real decisions for real users, daily.
• You'll work directly with the Founder and CPO with no layers in between.
• You'll own applied engineering that ships, gets measured, improves, and compounds over time.
• You'll have the space to set standards, build the team, and scale your own playbook.
• You'll hold meaningful equity in a company built to expand beyond one city, one product, and one vertical.
• You'll be the first and most important technical hire. The decisions you make in the next 12 months will define how WYLE works for the next decade.
• If this feels like the kind of build you’ve been waiting for, send a short intro or a note about what you’ve built before to
• ceo@wyle.ai
• or apply directly here on LinkedIn.