Technical Projects Lead

Recruiting From Scratch • San Francisco, CA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Our client is a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure company building frontier data systems for the world’s leading AI labs. The company works directly with top-tier AI organizations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Amazon , helping power next-generation model training through advanced datasets, experimentation systems, and data infrastructure for agentic workflows. Founded in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator, the company has raised $34M and is already generating 8-figure revenue with exceptional growth velocity. Their work sits at the cutting edge of AI research infrastructure — enabling frontier labs to solve some of the hardest reasoning and agentic systems problems in the industry. The team is highly talent-dense, with leadership backgrounds spanning Citadel Securities, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Silver Lake . This is a rare opportunity to join a hypergrowth AI company as an early operational-technical leader helping drive critical customer-facing projects.

Requirements

• 0–3 years of technical or project ownership experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience shipping code (internships, research, projects, or production systems)
• Highly scrappy and execution-oriented
• Comfortable owning external-facing workstreams
• Strong client-facing communication skills
• High agency and extreme ownership mentality
• Comfortable in intense startup environments
• Willing to work extended hours in-office

Nice To Haves

• Previous founder experience
• Technical degree from top-tier university
• Consulting / strategy experience (especially MBB)
• Experience in technical client-facing roles
• Full-stack engineering exposure
• Strong coding proficiency in any major language
• AI / ML infrastructure interest
• Project management in ambiguous environments
• Startup operating experience

Responsibilities

• Own technical client projects end-to-end
• Manage relationships with leading AI lab customers
• Coordinate project execution across engineering and operations
• Architect technical workflows for data generation and review systems
• Work cross-functionally with engineering to solve customer problems
• Manage teams of domain experts across technical verticals
• Translate customer requirements into execution plans
• Drive delivery under tight deadlines
• Support frontier AI research initiatives
• Help shape internal operational systems and processes
• Execute high-priority cross-functional initiatives
• Operate with significant autonomy and ownership

Benefits

• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Relocation support
• Visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates
• Direct exposure to frontier AI labs
• Significant ownership from day one
• Exceptional compensation upside

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level