Technical Projects Lead

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Title of Role: Technical Projects Lead

Location: San Francisco, CA (FiDi - On-site, 5 days/week + half-day Sunday)
Company Stage of Funding: Series A trajectory (~$34M raised)
Office Type: On-site
Salary: $110,000 - $150,000 base + Meaningful Equity + Performance Bonus (potential $300K+)
Visa: Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates (no new H1Bs)
Company Description

Our client is a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure company building frontier data systems for the world's leading AI labs.

The company works directly with top-tier AI organizations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Amazon , helping power next-generation model training through advanced datasets, experimentation systems, and data infrastructure for agentic workflows.

Founded in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator, the company has raised $34M and is already generating 8-figure revenue with exceptional growth velocity.

Their work sits at the cutting edge of AI research infrastructure - enabling frontier labs to solve some of the hardest reasoning and agentic systems problems in the industry.

The team is highly talent-dense, with leadership backgrounds spanning Citadel Securities, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Silver Lake .

This is a rare opportunity to join a hypergrowth AI company as an early operational-technical leader helping drive critical customer-facing projects.
What You Will Do

• Own technical client projects end-to-end
• Manage relationships with leading AI lab customers
• Coordinate project execution across engineering and operations
• Architect technical workflows for data generation and review systems
• Work cross-functionally with engineering to solve customer problems
• Manage teams of domain experts across technical verticals
• Translate customer requirements into execution plans
• Drive delivery under tight deadlines
• Support frontier AI research initiatives
• Help shape internal operational systems and processes
• Execute high-priority cross-functional initiatives
• Operate with significant autonomy and ownership

Ideal Candidate Background

• 0-3 years of technical or project ownership experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience shipping code (internships, research, projects, or production systems)
• Highly scrappy and execution-oriented
• Comfortable owning external-facing workstreams
• Strong client-facing communication skills
• High agency and extreme ownership mentality
• Comfortable in intense startup environments
• Willing to work extended hours in-office
• Strong intellectual curiosity

Preferred

• Previous founder experience
• Technical degree from top-tier university
• Consulting / strategy experience (especially MBB)
• Experience in technical client-facing roles
• Full-stack engineering exposure
• Strong coding proficiency in any major language
• AI / ML infrastructure interest
• Project management in ambiguous environments
• Startup operating experience

Strong Signals

• Top-20 CS / technical program
• SWE internships at elite tech companies
• Prior startup founding experience
• Quant / technical rigor
• Proven ability to work under pressure
• Evidence of grind / exceptional drive
• Ownership of complex technical projects

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $110,000 - $150,000
• Performance bonus: uncapped upside (potential $300K+)
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Relocation support
• Visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates
• Direct exposure to frontier AI labs
• Significant ownership from day one
• Exceptional compensation upside

Why Join

This is a rare opportunity to work directly at the frontier of AI infrastructure.

You'll partner with the world's leading AI labs, shape mission-critical projects that influence next-generation model development, and gain extraordinary exposure to technical operations at scale.

If you're highly ambitious, technical, client-facing, and excited by intensity, ownership, and outsized upside, this role offers exceptional career acceleration.