AI Tech Lead

Hey there!
Were Fever the worlds leading tech platform for culture and live entertainment.

Our mission To democratize access to culture and entertainment. With our proprietary cutting-edge technology and data-driven approach were revolutionizing the way people engage with live entertainment.

Every month our platform inspires over 300 million people in 55 countries (and counting) to discover unforgettable experiences while also empowering event creators with our data and technology helping them scale innovate and enhance their events to reach new audiences.

Our results Weve teamed up with major industry leaders like Netflix F.C. Barcelona and Primavera Sound presented international award-winning experiences and are backed by several leading global investors! Impressive right

To achieve our mission we are looking for bar-raisers with a hands-on mindset who are eager to help shape the future of entertainment!

Ready to be part of the experience

Now lets discuss this role and what you will do to help achieve Fevers mission.

The Role

Were looking for a Lead AI Engineer to drive Fevers company-wide AI transformation. This is a high-impact role for someone who can build and lead small high-performance specialist teams that ship AI initiatives across large business domains from business development and creative production to investment decisions operations and customer experience.

Your focus is applying AI to transform how the business operates. Youll stay at the cutting edge of AI technology being developed around the world and translate it into practical high-leverage applications inside Fever automating workflows augmenting decision-making and unlocking capabilities that werent possible before. Youll partner with senior leaders across the company to identify the highest-leverage opportunities assemble the right squad to tackle them and deliver production-grade AI products that change how Fever operates at scale.

This role combines deep technical excellence hands-on system design team leadership and strategic stakeholder management. Youll set the bar for what AI engineering looks like at Fever and shape how the company adopts AI across every function.

What youll do

• Lead Fevers AI transformation across multiple business domains identifying where AI can unlock the largest impact and shaping the roadmap to get there.
• Build and lead small high-performance specialist teams embedding with business stakeholders to ship AI products end-to-end from problem framing to production.
• Design and ship advanced AI systems combining LLMs agents retrieval and orchestration layers optimized for real business outcomes rather than benchmarks including high-volume low-latency production workflows.
• Define best practices for AI engineering at Fever: evaluation observability cost control prompt and model governance safety and long-term maintainability.
• Hire mentor and grow AI engineers fostering a culture of ownership craftsmanship and high velocity.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership across business domains translating AI capabilities into concrete strategy and managing expectations on whats feasible when and at what cost.

What were looking for

• Strong software engineering foundations with hands-on experience in Python building scalable production systems (event-driven architectures microservices APIs databases).
• Deep hands-on experience designing and shipping AI systems in production LLM applications agentic workflows RAG fine-tuning or orchestration frameworks (LangGraph LlamaIndex DSPy or similar) ideally having delivered something similar at another company.
• Solid grasp of the modern AI stack: foundation model APIs (OpenAI Anthropic Google) vector databases evaluation frameworks prompt engineering and inference optimization. Comfortable with AWS Docker Kubernetes CI/CD and observability tooling for AI workloads.
• Strong product sense and stakeholder management skills ability to navigate ambiguity prioritize ruthlessly for impact and align engineering work with business goals.
• Track record of leading projects across multiple teams and of hiring mentoring and growing engineers.

Bonus points for

• Experience building agentic systems or AI-powered automation that replaces or augments human workflows at scale.
• Familiarity with the broader AI/ML platform ecosystem (LangSmith Langfuse Weights & Biases MLFlow) and applied ML at scale (recommenders ranking search).
• Side projects open-source contributions or published work in applied AI.

The environment

• Product-driven cloud-native (AWS) fast-moving team with direct line of sight to business impact.
• We care about code quality performance testability evaluation rigor and long-term maintainability.
• We hire builders: people who own systems end-to-end and turn ambiguity into shipped products.
• Leadership is hands-on and collaborative setting the pace through initiative example and accountability.
• This role is based in our Madrid office. We work in a hybrid setup with strong in-person collaboration so being on the ground in Madrid is essential for embedding with business teams across the company.

Benefits & Perks

• Responsibility from day one and professional and personal growth in one of the most exciting AI roles in the company.
• Opportunity to have a real impact in a high-growth global category leader.
• A compensation package consisting of base salary and the potential to earn a significant bonus for top performance.
• Stock options plan.
• 40% discount on all Fever events and experiences.
• Based in Madrid with a home office friendly setup.
• Health insurance and other benefits such as Flexible remuneration with a 100% tax exemption through Cobee.
• English / Spanish lessons.
• Wellhub membership.
• Possibility to receive in advance part of your salary by Payflow.