For Recruiters

If you're hiring a senior IC-track engineer who designs, codes, and ships production agentic AI systems, this page exists to make the next 30 seconds easy.

What I'm looking for

Role: Principal Agentic AI Architect · Distinguished Engineer, AI · Principal AI Engineer · Senior Staff AI Architect

Track: Individual contributor. Hands-on. I architect and I write code. I'm happy to mentor, partner with EMs, and own multi-quarter technical roadmaps, but I'm not seeking a people-management role.

Domains I'm strongest in: multi-agent orchestration, LLM evaluation and quality gates, RAG architectures, Model Context Protocol (MCP), production agentic systems, ML at scale, healthcare AI, edtech AI.

Company stage: Series B through public. I work especially well in environments that are past prototype and need someone to architect the path from "demos that work" to "systems that run reliably with measurable cost, latency, and quality SLAs."

Compensation and logistics

• Target total comp: $350K–$550K total comp, with significant flex for equity-heavy startup offers
• Location: Portland, Oregon metro (McMinnville). Remote-first or hybrid with reasonable travel. I will not relocate.
• Work authorization: US citizen. No sponsorship needed.
• Earliest start: 14 days from offer
• Travel: Up to ~25% for the right role.

What I'm not looking for

Saves us both time:

• Pure people-management roles (VP Engineering, Engineering Director with no IC scope)
• Pre-seed / seed-stage where the role is "first AI hire, figure it out alone" — I prefer to join teams that already have engineering and ops to integrate with
• Roles that are 100% strategy with no codebase access
• Crypto / web3 / gambling
• Roles requiring relocation away from the Pacific Northwest

Why hire me

A few numbers from the last decade of shipped work:

• 22% instructor performance lift, 4.71/5.0 NPS across 400+ MAANG-level instructors — driven by ALCA, the production agentic AI evaluation system I designed and built at Interview Kickstart
• $250M acquisition at Medalogix, supported by my technical due diligence on the production ML and data governance stack
• $320M in incremental sales from the Wal-Mart retail BI architecture I owned as HP Master Technologist
• US Patent 6,850,988 — sole inventor of the clickstream personalization algorithm foundational to e-commerce recommendation engines
• 61.4% FAANG placement rate across 10,000+ graduates of programs I lead at Interview Kickstart, vs ~5% industry baseline

Selected current work

• PACCA — public multi-agent healthcare prior-authorization platform. Four agentic design traditions, FastAPI / ChromaDB / PostgreSQL / React, full PRD, system design document, HIPAA compliance documentation, 140-test evaluation suite.
• Portfolio — open-source projects, white papers, and patents.
• Writing — production agentic systems and ML engineering at scale, written for senior technical leaders.

How to start a conversation

The fastest path:

1. Book a 30-minute call — pick any open slot.
2. Email: drdgreed@gmail.com — include role title, company stage, and comp ballpark so I can respond efficiently.
3. LinkedIn — connect with a short note.

I respond to every legitimate inbound within 48 hours.

FAQ recruiters tend to ask

What's your patent actually about?

US Patent 6,850,988 covers a system for interpreting customer click-stream navigation patterns to optimize e-commerce strategy in real time. It's the architectural ancestor of behavior-signal-driven recommendation engines — the same pattern family that today's ad ranking and agentic personalization systems descend from.

What's a "Master Technologist" at HP?

HP's IC track topped at Master Technologist. It is the HP-internal equivalent of Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, Google, or Amazon, and Senior Fellow / Technical Fellow at companies that use those titles. I held it for six years owning logical design and interoperability of HP's global application stack.

Do you really still write code?

Yes. PACCA, ALCA, Open Brain (MCP server on Supabase), and DeepEval test suites are all systems I designed and built myself. My GitHub commit history is the proof.

Will you take a senior management role for the right offer?

I'm not opposed to people-leadership for an exceptional opportunity, but my best work is on the IC track. If you're considering me for an EM/Director role, please be ready to talk about how 60–80% of the role can stay technical.

Last updated: May 2026