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Job description
New York City | Reporting to the CEO | Confidential venture-backed AI company
A rapidly growing, venture-backed AI company is building at the frontier of agentic services. Launched commercially in late 2025, the business is approaching $8 million in revenue and has raised approximately $10 million from leading Silicon Valley investors.
The company combines autonomous AI agents, proprietary technology, and expert human judgment to transform how work is delivered across the $60+ billion advertising industry. Early product-market fit is unusually strong, and the business is entering its next phase of product and organizational scale.
The opportunity
We are looking for an AI-native engineering leader who still builds. Reporting directly to the CEO and co-founder, you will inherit a seven-person distributed development team, personally own architecture and technical quality, and help turn a rapidly growing agentic-services business into a scalable software platform.
You should be comfortable moving between code, product decisions, customer problems, hiring, and long-term technical strategy in the same day. This is not a maintenance, advisory, or coordination role. The successful candidate will operate as a hands-on builder, technical decision-maker, and company leader.
What you’ll own
Set the technical vision and architecture for an agentic AI platform operating in production.
Remain meaningfully hands-on through coding, architecture, code review, debugging, and critical product development.
Lead a distributed team of two US-based engineers and five full-time developers working through an offshore development partner.
Establish clear accountability, engineering standards, code-review practices, and operating rhythms across the distributed team.
Build reliable systems for agent orchestration, tool use, evaluation, observability, human review, and production safeguards.
Create a technical roadmap that balances rapid experimentation with scalability and technical quality.
Recruit, manage, and develop exceptional engineers as the company grows.
Determine which technical capabilities should remain with external partners and which should be developed internally.
Partner closely with the founders across product strategy, customer needs, hiring, and company planning.
Improve development velocity without sacrificing reliability, security, or maintainability.
Represent the technology function with customers, investors, partners, and future senior hires.
What we’re looking for
Personally built and shipped an AI-native or agentic product used by real customers.
Hands-on production experience with LLM APIs, agent orchestration, evaluations, observability, retrieval, tool use, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
Meaningful coding, architecture, and code-review involvement within the last two years.
Experience building a product from 0 to 1 at a venture-backed startup or as an early engineer.
Significant experience building and scaling production software systems.
Experience recruiting and leading a high-caliber engineering team while maintaining personal technical credibility.
Strong product instincts and the ability to connect technical decisions to customer and commercial outcomes.
Comfort operating with imperfect information, short feedback cycles, and ambitious goals.
Clear communication, low ego, high ownership, and a strong bias toward action.
Located within commuting distance of New York City and willing to work on-site regularly.
This role is designed for a builder. Candidates whose recent experience has focused primarily on enterprise transformation, advisory work, program management, or managing large organizations without direct technical involvement are unlikely to be a fit.
Particularly relevant experience
Engineering experience at a high-bar technology company or elite venture-backed startup.
A rigorous computer science, computer engineering, or related technical foundation.
Experience scaling a product through rapid customer and revenue growth.
Knowledge of the content-creator ecosystem, paid media, advertising technology, or social networks.
Experience managing distributed developers while progressively building an internal team.
Public technical work, meaningful open-source contributions, or products you can demonstrate.
Scaling multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and integrating numerous third-party platforms and APIs.
Why this opportunity
Rare commercial traction for a company at this stage.
Direct ownership of the technology function and engineering culture.
Close partnership with experienced, commercially driven founders.
Strong backing from leading Silicon Valley investors.
The opportunity to reinvent a $60+ billion industry through an AI-native operating model.
Meaningful equity and the ability to shape the company’s long-term trajectory.
This search is being conducted confidentially. Additional information will be shared with qualified candidates during the initial conversation.
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Worksite address
new york, NY, 10261, US
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