Fractional CTO / AI Strategy Council - Remote (Contractor)

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 

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.

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.