- Where
- New York, New York , GB
- Level
- Senior
Founding Engineering Lead | New York, NY (On-site) | Full-Time
We are looking for a Founding Engineering Lead who will ship the hardest, first versions of an autonomous revenue team product themselves and help shape the product and ML strategy alongside the founders.
About the role:
You will own the technical architecture end to end and work directly with the founders on the product roadmap and ML approach.
Early on, expect about 75/25 split between building and leading, with that balance shifting over time. You will be in charge of several engineers, support their growth and performance, and stay hands-on in the codebase.
What you will do:
Start new initiatives with the first designs and builds.
Own the core platform architecture, including build-versus-buy and infrastructure cost decisions.
Set the engineering standard for a team where agents write much of the code: review practices, definition of done, release cadence, and on-call.
Lead the team: sprint scope, unblocking, performance conversations, and hiring the next engineers.
Partner with the CTO on technical direction, including roadmap, ML approach, and strategy.
What you bring:
Experience at the frontier of agent-driven development. You have built your own workflow rather than accepting defaults and get more out of AI tools than most.
5+ years of engineering experience, ideally as a technical founder, founding engineer, or staff IC leading a team at a high-bar company.
A track record of being the primary author of something that shipped in the last six months, owned end to end with minimal oversight.
Experience being accountable for other engineers’ output.
Applied ML judgment, both classical (matching techniques to data and catching flawed validation early) and frontier (informed views on transformers, world models, and applied ML).
Comfort with ambiguity, inherited code, and un-glamorous work.
If you are interested, please submit an up-to-date copy of your CV.
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