AI Builder - FDE

About Hyde

Hyde builds specialist AI models and agents for high-stakes enterprise workflows. Our training and inference platform extracts proprietary data, deep institutional context, and enterprise dark matter to create models that reason like an enterprise's best operators, improving with every run.

We fundamentally believe the next frontier of AI isn't generalist models, but specialist ones that redefine what's possible in a given domain. Getting there requires sophisticated post-training, alignment, and reinforcement learning paradigms to make agents reliably perform complex tasks in enterprise environment.

We are a fast-growing, talent-dense team of AI researchers who built frontier open models at DeepMind, early FDEs who shaped Palantir's commercial business, IOI medalists, and organizational strategists from McKinsey and HBS. You will be joining a 30+ person team based across NYC, London, and Mumbai, backed by Bain Capital Ventures and General Catalyst, and already partnering with Global 500s, AI natives, and investment firms to shape the future deployment of AI.

What is an AI Builder?

Being an AI Builder at Hyde is like leading your own Applied AI startup, you’re the CXO, driving vision, strategy, and execution. You'll work in talent-dense teams to build and deploy the training and inference stack that enables enterprises to develop RL-based agents.

AI Builders get the opportunity to work across the three tracks, and the freedom to focus on the area aligning with experience and interest.

• Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE): Embed directly with enterprise CXOs and senior stakeholders to identify high-value problem spaces and translate them into deployable AI systems, feeding into Hyde's core platform, primitives, and tooling.

• Product: Iterate on Hyde’s product toolkits by capturing cutting-edge applied AI patterns that create delivery leverage. Equally capture usage insights from production environments to refine product abstractions and interfaces for deployments.

• Research: Work at the frontier of post-training research, training and fine-tuning models, building agents, designing evaluation frameworks, and creating RL environments for specific enterprise domains. Feed key breakthroughs and techniques back into Hyde's core platform, keeping the product at the cutting edge as the field evolves.

You may be the right fit if you have:

• Experience working in applied ML, reinforcement learning, evals, product engineering, product management, and/or top-tier management consulting. Ideally, deep model-level understanding and experience deploying AI in creative ways to solve real-world problems

• A solid grasp of ML basics (how models are trained and evaluated) and strong problem decomposition skills. Preferred backgrounds include but are not limited to Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Machine Learning, Data Science, or equivalent experience building technical or AI products

• Ability to run technical discovery with senior stakeholders, translate ambiguous business problems into scoped AI systems, and communicate model behavior credibly to non-technical audiences

• Hands-on software engineering skills in at least one language such as Python, TypeScript, Java or C++, through shipping production code or building working prototypes alongside engineers
  

The details

• Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE, with travel to Hyde offices and customer locations as needed

• Competitive salary (plus equity and employee benefits on top) - specific offer will depend on experience and technical skill set

• Full-time or fixed-term contract roles available