Founding Engineering Leader — Hands-on AI/Voice Tech

About the RoleA seed-stage neurotechnology startup in San Francisco is hiring a Head of Engineering — a founding leadership role for someone who can set technical direction and still ship code every day. You'll partner directly with the Founder to define product strategy, own the full engineering stack, and build the team and culture from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to be the senior technical voice at a company pioneering software-only approaches to cognitive health and performance.What You'll DoPartner directly with the Founder to define and evolve technical strategy and product roadmapStay deeply hands-on: write and review code, make architecture calls, and set the bar for engineering qualityOwn and harden backend infrastructure for security and scaleEstablish engineering workflows, principles, and code quality standards the team can grow intoLead technical hiring and build engineering culture from the ground upWork cross-functionally with product, science, and design to ship quickly and iterate based on real user feedbackTranslate fuzzy product goals into clean technical decisions, including through user research and experiment designWhat We're Looking ForRequired2–6 years of experience in fast-moving startup environments, preferably in consumer software or AI-native productsFormer founder or founding engineer with proven experience shipping a consumer product from 01Hands-on individual contributor comfortable owning end-to-end engineering as the senior technical voiceExperience with voice/audio processing and building software products around voice dataProficiency in Swift/macOS desktop, iOS, and Python for ML/data pipelines, plus cloud backend (AWS or GCP)Strong product instincts — comfortable with ambiguity, user research, metric analysis, and experiment designEligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorshipNice to HaveNative mobile development (iOS/Android), or managing teams who doHands-on experience with RAG pipelines, agentic systems, or LLM-based productsBackground in consumer health or wellness technologyThe ideal candidate is high energy, low ego, and deeply mission-driven — equally comfortable in a product strategy conversation and a code review, and energized by the challenge of building something genuinely new.Compensation & BenefitsBase salary: $180,000 – $220,000 USD annuallyMeaningful equity packageFull benefitsFlexible PTOLocationThis role is on-site in San Francisco, CA. Candidates must be willing and able to work from the San Francisco office. Visa sponsorship is not available. #J-18808-Ljbffr Torrey Holistics