Peregrine · 1 week ago
Lead of Applied AI
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$225K/yr - $300K/yrPeregrine is a company backed by leading Silicon Valley investors that helps complex organizations solve their hardest problems with speed and accuracy using their AI-enabled platform. The Lead of Applied AI will be responsible for operationalizing artificial intelligence across the product, developing AI-powered features, and leading a high-performing team to ensure the effectiveness and reliability of AI solutions.
Big DataPublic SafetySoftwareInformation TechnologyAnalyticsReal Time
Responsibilities
Lead the design and deployment of customer facing AI features across Peregrine’s platform
Translate real operational problems into deployable AI-powered solutions
Partner deeply with Product, Deployment Strategists, and other Engineering teams to integrate AI into core workflows
Own and guide fine tuning strategies and reinforcement learning to improve decision quality
Make principled tradeoffs between classical ML, deep learning, and LLM-based approaches based on accuracy, latency, and risk
Shape Peregrine’s AI infrastructure, including: Training and inference pipelines, Model serving, versioning, and rollback, Integration with real-time and batch data systems
Ensure models are observable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective in production
Meet enterprise and government requirements
Define and operate robust evaluation frameworks
Establish quality standards that reflect real-world decision impact, not just model accuracy
Own monitoring, drift detection, and failure analysis for deployed models
Build and lead a high-performing Applied AI/ML team
Set technical direction for applied AI across Peregrine
Partner with executive leadership on AI strategy, roadmap, and responsible deployment
Qualification
Required
Demonstrated experience shipping AI-powered features into production, ideally in enterprise or mission critical environments
Hands-on experience with model fine tuning (LLMs or deep learning models)
Practical exposure to reinforcement learning
Experience in designing and operating AI/ML infrastructure
Direct ownership of model evaluation, experimentation, and quality measurement
Strong software engineering fundamentals as a lead
Preferred
Experience working with large scale and/or real-time data platforms
Background in domains where trust, explainability, and reliability matter (e.g., public sector, security, healthcare, finance)
Led software engineering teams before
Company
Peregrine
Peregrine is the leading platform for public safety agencies, providing real-time data integration and visualization in one place for better decision-making in the moments that matter most.
Founded in 2018
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$250.12MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalFifth Down Capital,Friends & Family CapitalGoldcrest Capital
2025-03-04Series C· $190M
2024-05-01Series B· $30M
2022-05-23Series Unknown· $21.12M
Leadership Team
Nick Noone
Co-founder/CEO
Ben Rudolph
Co-Founder
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