Founding Engineering Lead
About the Role
Lead engineering for an early-stage SaaS team building applied AI products for enterprise software. You will partner with the technical leadership team on architecture, product direction, and machine learning strategy while leading a small engineering pod and remaining hands-on with critical work.
What You'll Do
Build and lead a pod of three to four engineers, supporting their growth, performance, and hiring while shipping key work yourself.
Own platform architecture and make build-versus-buy and infrastructure decisions with product and revenue impact.
Set engineering standards for AI-assisted development, including review criteria, definition of done, release cadence, and on-call practices.
Lead technical designs and initial implementations for new initiatives.
Evaluate applied ML research and determine which techniques are suitable for production systems.
Partner with technical leadership to shape the product roadmap, model strategy, and ML approach.
Initially spend most of your time building, with the balance focused on team leadership.
