Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead
About The Position
AIUC builds standards and insurance for frontier AI, with a mission to underwrite superintelligence. The company is developing a universal autonomous red-teamer that stress-tests AI agents for different risks and attacks and is sprinting toward general availability of the product. The Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead will co-lead the engineering team, running half of it alongside the current lead, Riley, with each lead having their own direct reports. The role focuses on product engineering, while the current lead owns infrastructure and security. Time is split roughly evenly across building, managing, and hiring, with about a third of time spent on hands-on work. The lead will guide the certification platform to general availability, shape the product after launch with the founders, manage and grow engineers, and take ownership of hiring for their side of the team.
Requirements
- Experience as an engineering manager or tech lead manager at a top-tier engineering company, along with meaningful startup experience, or experience founding a company and hiring and managing its team.
- Experience shipping customer-facing products end to end and being able to explain and defend the decisions made.
- Experience directly managing engineers and helping them grow.
- Willingness to continue building, with about a third of the role dedicated to hands-on work in Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and AWS.
- Experience doing excellent work within a system built by others, alongside 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-run a team, split reports, share decisions, and make difficult decisions collaboratively.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building security or compliance products.
- Experience as a hiring manager.
- Infrastructure depth.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical work to take the certification platform to general availability.
- Find ways to certify more customers with less manual work and bring more auditors onto the product.
- Work with the founders to determine the product's direction after general availability through product judgment and experiments.
- Take over at least four engineers in the first few months and build a cohesive, effective team.
- Participate in hiring loops in the first month or two and take ownership of hiring for the team within a year.
- Continue hands-on product engineering work using Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and AWS.
- Co-run the engineering team with the other lead by sharing reports and decisions and making difficult calls together.
Benefits
- Competitive annual salary.
- Equity, described as a significant part of total compensation.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for the employee and dependents.
- Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring the employee to San Francisco, if needed.
- Daily lunch, dinner, and snacks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
