Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience with 4+ years leading teams of 15+ engineers.
- You’ve been a Director, Sr. Director, or VP of Engineering at a consumer product company, AI-first startup, or modern fintech.
- You’ve shipped consumer products at real scale (million+ users).
- You know what it takes to operate at that scale — latency, reliability, telemetry, incident response, global performance.
- You’ve hired an engineering organization before.
- You have strong opinions about what makes an engineer great and how to evaluate for it fast.
- You’ve written the ladder, run calibrations, managed out underperformers, and promoted people you believed in.
- You still code, or you coded within the last three years.
- You’re technical enough to make architecture calls, push back on Bruce when you disagree, and pair with an engineer on a tough problem when the moment calls for it.
- You are extremely AI-fluent. You’ve rebuilt your own workflow around AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, GPT) and you have strong opinions about which to use when.
- You can 2–3x your own output with AI workflows. This is not optional — the culture we’re building assumes this.
- You’ve shipped LLM-powered features in production or led a team that has.
- You understand the operational realities of running AI at scale: eval frameworks, hallucination mitigation, model routing, cost management, latency budgets.
- You think AI is a compounding advantage for engineering orgs, not a novelty. You’ve already internalized that.
Nice to Have
- You move fast. You ship weekly. You measure obsessively. You believe in small teams with high autonomy over large teams with lots of process. You earn trust through technical substance, not title. You’d rather pair with an engineer for an hour than run a status meeting. You hold a high bar on talent and aren’t afraid to make hard personnel calls. You believe the difference between a great engineering team and a good one is whether the leaders are willing to fire. You communicate directly. You give real feedback. You don’t manage up with performance theater. You’re willing to be in the office 5 days a week with the founding team. You see this as a feature, not a cost. You know this is how we ship 3x faster than hybrid teams.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401(k)
- FSA/HSA
- commuter benefits
- Relocation support for the right candidate, if moving to SF is required
Work Arrangement
On-site
Team
Team size: less than 10 today. Structure: founding engineering team
Additional Information
- 5 days a week with the founding team
- You see this as a feature, not a cost. You know this is how we ship 3x faster than hybrid teams.
