Head of Engineering

The Role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead an established engineering organization while remaining a working engineer, dividing time about equally between managing people and hands-on technical contribution. Set technical direction, work with senior leadership on planning, and help shape hiring plans for the coming months.

What You'll Do

• Manage and develop engineers across infrastructure, platform and product, setting priorities and expectations for ownership.
• Contribute code personally and make key calls on system design and infrastructure for business-critical services, roughly half of your time.
• Guide technical choices for machine learning model development and deployment, weighing performance, spend and stability.
• Collaborate with the founders and the CTO to convert customer feedback into a clear roadmap and dependable delivery.
• Support the professional growth of your engineers through ongoing one-on-one conversations.
• Recruit and onboard new engineers as the organization expands.

What We're Looking For

• Prior senior engineer, staff engineer or engineering manager experience at a high-growth B2B software startup.
• Present responsibility for managing a group of engineers.
• Active, current involvement in writing production code.
• Solid hands-on engineering ability across software design, architecture and infrastructure.
• A track record of leading engineering recruiting during a period of team growth.

Bonus Points

• Experience with backend services, APIs, distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Exposure to large-scale AI models, GPU-based infrastructure, model training or performance tuning for model serving.
• A degree from a leading STEM university.

Benefits

• Health, dental and vision coverage

Location And Work Model

• San Francisco, California, United States
• Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
• Full-time

Compensation, As The Posting Describes It

• Equity
• Flexible time off