Fractional CTO / AI Strategy Council - Remote (Contractor)
ShaeWellness, Austin, Texas, us, 78716
Join our expert bench — fractional CTO advisors wanted (hourly)
Title: Fractional CTO / AI Strategy Council — Remote (Contractor)
Location: Remote - Global (offshore-friendly to Western Europe, U.S., Canada, Australia, Latin America, Israel, Singapore, Malaysia, South East Asia)
Base fee: Hourly (paid via bank direct deposit)
Employment type: Contractor
Company: Shae Group
Website: https://shae.group
Who We Are Shae Group is a global AI-first technology and services group building precision AI products across health, wellbeing, education, human performance and enterprise infrastructure. We move fast, prioritize safety and reliability, and use expert judgement plus tooling to de-risk decisions and accelerate product outcomes.
Who You Are You are a senior technology leader (CTO / Head of AI / Distinguished Engineer) who wants to advise high-impact AI product decisions. You provide concise, high-leverage guidance — design reviews, threat models, eval audits, ADRs and playbooks — and can move between strategy and technical detail. You are experienced in shipping AI at scale, communicating clearly, and delivering artifacts that leaders act upon.
You share your experience in Ai development, Ai strategy, scalable Ai production systems to form strategies, and accelerate the company's AI roadmap and de‑risk decision making.
Your Experience Includes
LLM & Multi-Agent Systems (safety, evals, retrieval, tool-use, orchestration, cost/latency engineering)
MLOps & Data Platforms (feature stores, pipelines, governance, labeling/feedback loops)
AI in Regulated Health (privacy, DPIA/TRA, clinical safety, audit trails)
SRE/Cloud Economics (SLOs, incident mgmt, cost/perf tradeoffs)
Security & Privacy (threat modeling for AI systems, secrets mgmt, data minimization)
Product & Growth (AI monetization, pricing, usage metering, partner integrations)
Your Responsibilities
Provide clear advice-to-decision paths for new and extending projects. You propose or review Ai strategy, and implementation pathways
Reference architectures, playbooks, and guardrail policies; risk registers; buy/build/partner matrices; vendor RFPs
Quality checks
Requirements Must-have qualifications
10+ yrs; prior CTO/Head of AI/Distinguished Ai Eng; shipped AI at scale; strong communication
Extensive proof of Python & FAST API projects, utilising extensive LLM APIs in production systems
Scaled Ai/ML systems above 1M users
Handled (managed and built) complex data pipelines
Nice-to-have
Experience in regulated healthcare or clinical AI (privacy frameworks, DPIA, compliance, audit requirements)
Prior advisory, fractional, consulting, or board-level support experience for engineering or AI teams
Benefits Compensation Hourly Rate
Engagement term: Typically 6-12 months with flexible scope and deliverables.
Payment & contractor terms Independent Contractor status only. Payment in USD via Wise or bank direct deposit. Hourly invoicing. No employee benefits.
How To Apply
Click Apply → submit 2 authored artifacts (deck or ADR) and a short Loom explaining an AI decision you influenced and how you measured impact
Must complete a self-initiated Ai-video interview call and personality profile survey
Selected advisors invited to a short design clinic and onboarding call
Closing note Join a focused council of experts that materially improves decision speed, model quality and platform reliability. We move fast and value concise, high-impact advice — apply with artifacts and a short Loom.
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Base fee: Hourly (paid via bank direct deposit)
Employment type: Contractor
Company: Shae Group
Website: https://shae.group
Who We Are Shae Group is a global AI-first technology and services group building precision AI products across health, wellbeing, education, human performance and enterprise infrastructure. We move fast, prioritize safety and reliability, and use expert judgement plus tooling to de-risk decisions and accelerate product outcomes.
Who You Are You are a senior technology leader (CTO / Head of AI / Distinguished Engineer) who wants to advise high-impact AI product decisions. You provide concise, high-leverage guidance — design reviews, threat models, eval audits, ADRs and playbooks — and can move between strategy and technical detail. You are experienced in shipping AI at scale, communicating clearly, and delivering artifacts that leaders act upon.
You share your experience in Ai development, Ai strategy, scalable Ai production systems to form strategies, and accelerate the company's AI roadmap and de‑risk decision making.
Your Experience Includes
LLM & Multi-Agent Systems (safety, evals, retrieval, tool-use, orchestration, cost/latency engineering)
MLOps & Data Platforms (feature stores, pipelines, governance, labeling/feedback loops)
AI in Regulated Health (privacy, DPIA/TRA, clinical safety, audit trails)
SRE/Cloud Economics (SLOs, incident mgmt, cost/perf tradeoffs)
Security & Privacy (threat modeling for AI systems, secrets mgmt, data minimization)
Product & Growth (AI monetization, pricing, usage metering, partner integrations)
Your Responsibilities
Provide clear advice-to-decision paths for new and extending projects. You propose or review Ai strategy, and implementation pathways
Reference architectures, playbooks, and guardrail policies; risk registers; buy/build/partner matrices; vendor RFPs
Quality checks
Requirements Must-have qualifications
10+ yrs; prior CTO/Head of AI/Distinguished Ai Eng; shipped AI at scale; strong communication
Extensive proof of Python & FAST API projects, utilising extensive LLM APIs in production systems
Scaled Ai/ML systems above 1M users
Handled (managed and built) complex data pipelines
Nice-to-have
Experience in regulated healthcare or clinical AI (privacy frameworks, DPIA, compliance, audit requirements)
Prior advisory, fractional, consulting, or board-level support experience for engineering or AI teams
Benefits Compensation Hourly Rate
Engagement term: Typically 6-12 months with flexible scope and deliverables.
Payment & contractor terms Independent Contractor status only. Payment in USD via Wise or bank direct deposit. Hourly invoicing. No employee benefits.
How To Apply
Click Apply → submit 2 authored artifacts (deck or ADR) and a short Loom explaining an AI decision you influenced and how you measured impact
Must complete a self-initiated Ai-video interview call and personality profile survey
Selected advisors invited to a short design clinic and onboarding call
Closing note Join a focused council of experts that materially improves decision speed, model quality and platform reliability. We move fast and value concise, high-impact advice — apply with artifacts and a short Loom.
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