Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

AIUC builds standards and insurance for frontier AI, with a mission to underwrite superintelligence. Its AIUC-1 standard for agent security serves frontier AI companies. The company is hiring a second engineering lead as it prepares to bring its universal autonomous red-teaming and certification platform to general availability. The Engineering Lead will share leadership of the engineering team with the current lead, Riley, with each lead managing their own reports. The role focuses on product engineering; the current lead owns infrastructure and security. Time is divided approximately evenly among building, managing, and hiring, with about one-third spent on hands-on engineering. The lead will guide the platform to general availability, improve customer certification and auditor workflows, and help determine the product’s direction after launch in partnership with the founders. The role will take over at least four engineers within the first few months and assume responsibility for hiring on their side of the team within a year. The position requires balancing delivery, people management, and hiring, while collaborating closely and directly with the other engineering lead. The company values high standards, keeping commitments, experimentation, pace, mission-focused strategy, candor, and connection.

Requirements

Likely experience as an engineering manager or technical lead manager at a top-tier engineering company, along with meaningful startup experience; alternatively, experience founding a company and hiring and managing its team.
Experience shipping customer-facing products end to end and being able to explain the decisions made in detail.
Direct experience managing engineers and supporting their growth.
Willingness and ability to spend about one-third of the role on hands-on work using Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and AWS.
Experience delivering strong work within a system built by others, as well as startup or founder experience.
Typically 8 or more years of experience; founders who have hired and managed teams may have fewer years.
Ability to co-lead a team by sharing reports and decisions and making difficult calls collaboratively.

Nice To Haves

Experience building security or compliance products; this is not required.
Experience as a hiring manager.
Infrastructure depth.

Responsibilities

Lead technical work to bring the certification platform to general availability.
Find ways to certify more customers with less manual work and bring more auditors onto the product.
Partner with the founders to determine the product’s direction after general availability, using product judgment and experiments.
Manage at least four engineers within the first few months and help them grow.
Build a team whose members work effectively together.
Join hiring loops in the first month or two and take ownership of hiring for the product-engineering side of the team within a year.
Continue hands-on engineering work, approximately one-third of the time.
Share team leadership, reports, and decisions with the current engineering lead, making difficult decisions together.