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title: 'Applied AI Strategist, Federal at Thread AI'
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# Applied AI Strategist, Federal at Thread AI

- **Company:** Thread AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thread-ai/6605fa39-a09d-45ba-a06c-a84cafe2980e

## Job description

## About Thread AI

Thread AI is focused on building an AI orchestration engine and is looking for dedicated individuals to join its growing team. Our goal is to make infrastructure simple for enterprises and public sector agencies seeking to get the most from AI and AI Agents. Headquartered in New York, our growing team is a group of experts who have a track record of creating and executing against complex workflows and infrastructure.

## About the Role

You will help federal customers decide where AI can improve their work, then get that capability into use. You will investigate their data and processes, build workflows in Lemma, and test them with the people doing the work. That may mean fixing a handoff between offices or helping a team turn a successful evaluation into a workflow they use every week. You will own problem definition, workflow requirements, customer execution and adoption. Your Applied AI Engineer partner will own production software and integrations. Together, you will decide what to build and how to measure success. Growth will own commercial negotiations and account expansion, informed by the results you deliver. This is an individual contributor role with responsibility for leading customer engagements.

- Work alongside users to understand their decisions and the obstacles that consume their time. Identify a problem worth solving and establish how to measure improvement.
- Investigate available data and systems with the customer and your engineering partner. Surface access, data-quality and integration dependencies early.
- Build agents and workflows in Lemma. Test their logic with realistic examples, review outputs with users and refine what you build.
- Agree on scope, milestones and acceptance criteria. Keep customer decisions and dependencies moving, and raise changes that affect delivery commitments.
- Run working sessions and training. Help users operate the workflow independently and recognize when it needs attention.
- Measure adoption and results, and explain them clearly to users, program leaders and technical stakeholders.
- Bring specific customer problems back to product and engineering. Develop reusable workflows and implementation guidance from what succeeds in the field.
- Work with Growth on discovery and evaluations, using customer evidence to shape feasible follow-on work.

## What we are looking for

- Four or more years of relevant experience, or comparable evidence of independently leading customer delivery, product implementation or operational technology adoption.
- A track record of taking an ambiguous problem through implementation and into sustained use, with clear evidence of what changed for users.
- Strong analytical judgment. You can investigate data, question assumptions and turn competing requests into a manageable scope.
- Technical fluency with APIs, data structures and AI models. You can follow engineering tradeoffs and learn a product well enough to build useful workflows yourself.
- The ability to work credibly with users, technical teams and senior stakeholders and help them reach decisions.
- Clear writing and practical execution: useful requirements, decision records, training materials and concise updates.

Relevant backgrounds include implementation consulting, product management, analytics, customer delivery and military or government technology adoption. We welcome varied educational backgrounds and equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is optional.

Nice to haves

- Working with federal agencies or military teams and understanding how operational users, program offices and technical stakeholders make decisions.
- Using SQL, Python or another analytical tool to investigate data or prototype a solution.
- Building or deploying AI applications, including evaluations and workflows with human review.
- Helping users change established processes and measuring whether a new tool improved their work.

## Why Thread AI

You will work with a founding team that built AI products at Palantir and with the engineers building Lemma. You will have room to investigate a customer’s problem, build the workflow and see what changes when people use it. Your field experience will help shape both the product and how we deliver it to federal customers. We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, or age, we encourage you to apply! Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role and the company but your past experience doesn’t align with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply anyway - we’d love to get to know you and see if there’s a place for you at Thread!

## Compensation

The annual base pay range is $150,000-$200,000, plus equity. An active U.S. Secret security clearance or higher is preferred, but not required. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national or U.S. lawful, permanent resident. This is a full-time position, preferably based in New York City. Travel: Approximately 25-50%.

## About Thread AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Thread AI builds Lemma, a composable AI orchestration infrastructure and workflow platform that enables enterprises to safely deploy governed, reliable AI agents in mission-critical operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed + Series A funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Angela McNeal (CEO) and Mayada Gonimah (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / enterprise software
- **Target customers**: Regulated industries, Fortune 500 enterprises, public sector agencies, and any organization running business‑critical processes that require audit, control, and reliability.
- **Mission**: Bridge the gap between powerful AI models and production operations by providing controlled autonomy – letting AI agents act independently within clearly defined operational boundaries.

## Products & Services
- **Lemma** – A composable AI orchestration infrastructure and workflow builder. Key features include:
  - Drag‑and‑drop workflow builder plus code‑first SDK and API access (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, SFTP).
  - Built‑in security and governance: SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS compliance; AES‑256 encryption at rest, TLS in transit; PII redaction; full audit trails.
  - Glass‑box observability with complete traceability for every agent decision and system access.
  - Dynamic workflow planning and execution supporting non‑deterministic, multi‑step agentic paths.
  - Human‑in‑the‑loop guardrails for critical decision points.
  - Deployment flexibility: VPC, on‑premises, or multi‑tenant SaaS.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$26M** across two rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Seed round (Oct 2024): $6M led by **Index Ventures** (5 investors)
  - Series A (Jul 2025): $20M led by **Greycroft** (6 investors)
  - Additional seed investor in 2023
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+75% YoY** to 24 employees.
  - LinkedIn followers grew **+191% year‑over‑year** (3,213 followers).
  - Powering production AI in Fortune 500 operations and public sector agencies.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team** – Former Heads of AI/ML Product and Engineering at Palantir Technologies, bringing deep experience deploying large‑scale data systems in the world’s most demanding environments.
- **“Controlled Autonomy” architecture** – Enables autonomous agents to operate within defined guardrails, satisfying both builder flexibility and enterprise compliance.
- **Enterprise‑grade compliance out‑of‑the‑box** – SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS – no need to retrofit governance later.
- **Vendor‑agnostic composability** – Connects existing systems without replacing them (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, SFTP, SDKs).
- **Glass‑box observability** – Every workflow versioned, traced, and audit‑ready from first deployment.

## Strategic Focus
- Safely deploying AI in regulated environments where failure has real business consequences.
- Reducing infrastructure complexity so builders can prototype and productionize on a single platform without rebuilding.
- Maintaining strict data control: customers own their data and agents; no vendor lock‑in.

## Why Work Here
- **Founding story** – Built by AI leaders who left Palantir to solve one of AI’s hardest problems: reliable, governed deployment of agents.
- **Engineering culture** – Emphasizes “deep work, engineering excellence, and solving real‑world enterprise challenges.”
- **Growth trajectory** – Rapidly growing (24 employees, +75% YoY) with strong investor backing; early hires have significant impact.
- **Location & flexibility** – Office in New York, NY. Roles listed for New York; not explicitly remote/hybrid but open positions span engineering, sales, operations.
- **Notable perks** – Engineering‑first environment, opportunity to shape the infrastructure layer for enterprise AI.

## Sources
1. [threadai.com – Platform page](https://www.threadai.com/platform)
2. [threadai.com – Company page](https://www.threadai.com/company)
3. [linkedin.com – Thread AI Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thread-ai)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com – Open positions at Thread AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thread-ai)

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