Engineering Lead

Datalab•New York, NY

1d•$300,000 - $350,000•Onsite

About The Position

Datalab builds models that reliably read documents at scale, extracting crucial information from PDFs, scans, and files. Businesses rely on Datalab when extraction accuracy is paramount. The company has an 8-figure run rate with a small team of 7, demonstrating significant leverage per employee. Datalab is backed by prominent figures from OpenAI, FAIR, and Hugging Face, and its models have garnered substantial developer attention with over 70,000 GitHub stars. Customers include Anthropic and hundreds of other organizations across various sectors like FAANG, frontier AI labs, healthcare, finance, government, and legal.

Requirements

7+ years of engineering experience.
2+ years of experience leading or mentoring engineers.
A track record of shipping and maintaining production systems serving high-volume traffic.
Strong fullstack or backend depth.
Experience building with LLMs and agentic workflows.
Experience building in early-stage startup environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience partnering closely with research or ML teams, or bridging research and production.
Familiarity with Python ML frameworks (PyTorch, Transformers, etc.).
Familiarity with document processing, computer vision, or OCR systems.
Experience maintaining or contributing to open-source projects with active communities.

Responsibilities

Manage and grow a team of three engineers, including 1:1s, prioritization, feedback, and hiring.
Own engineering delivery, quality, and technical standards across code, testing, infrastructure, and deployment.
Contribute architecture, infrastructure, and code review across open-source repos, API, and internal tooling (~40-50% of time).
Own the research-to-production interface, including shared infrastructure, reproducibility, and transforming research prototypes into reliable systems.
Partner with the research team to align on productionization readiness and methods.
Help set engineering priorities and the roadmap in collaboration with the founder.