About the role
Sourcerer is looking for a Head of AI or CTO to lead their engineering team of three software engineers. The company is a modern-day trade company that buys goods overseas and brings them to the US for distribution, leveraging AI throughout every stage of the supply chain.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and mentoring a team of three software engineers
- Overseeing and improving the existing AI infrastructure for scraping and aggregating data from thousands of factories worldwide (using browser automation and native language searching on platforms like Alibaba, Made in China, and Google)
- Building out the front-end platform so customers can log in, track orders, and monitor market conditions (tariffs, geopolitical events, supply chain disruptions)
- Helping productionize the tech stack from an internal tool to a customer-facing platform
- Fixing bugs and improving the existing LLM-based sourcing and procurement pipeline
- Designing and scaling AI systems for supply chain transparency and data aggregation
Hard requirements:
- At least 2 years post-graduation (not first job out of college, no internships counting)
- 3–5 years of software engineering experience
- At least 2 years of building production-level LLM applications
- Demonstrated experience with AI and LLMs
- Experience with browser automation and native language searching
- Either experience at a large well-known tech company OR founding engineer / CTO experience at a seed-to-Series B startup
- Bachelor's degree from a top 20 institution (US or international) OR a bachelor's + master's degree
- Desire or demonstrated ability to lead a small engineering team
Nice to have: