VP of Engineering

Rime Labs • San Francisco, CA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The VP of Engineering is the connective tissue across Rime's multidisciplinary engineering org. You'll manage planning, execution, and communication across model inference, infra, product, web/integrations, internal tools, and compliance. You'll drive coordination and development of the engineering roadmap, and orchestrate the chaos that is an early-stage startup as we scale.

Requirements

• ~10 years of solid IC and tech lead experience
• At least a few years as an EM or Director at a midsize or larger startup
• At least one tour of duty at an early stage startup.
• At least one tour of duty at a Medium to large engineering org.
• Familiarity with ML workflows and inference
• Can communicate complex technical concepts with clarity and precision for a variety of audiences across the company.
• Exceptional operating and organizational skills
• Ability to size solutions appropriately for our scale and goals

Nice To Haves

• Based in the Bay Area
• Hands-on experience scaling infra and platform systems through growth curve
• Track record building engineering culture from the ground up, not just maintaining one you inherited

Responsibilities

• Lead all non-ML technical hiring
• Career development and performance reviews across the engineering org
• Build an engineering culture that can scale
• ML Inference Engineering
• Platform + Product Engineering
• Infra Engineering
• Internal Tools
• Forward Deployed Engineering (matrixed)
• Research, review, and establish new standards for code production and software practices at Rime
• Set protocols and culture around AI-assisted code production
• Make technology and tooling choices that allow the Rime platform to scale 100x
• Bottom-line prioritization across all engineering projects, actively managing tradeoffs in resource allocation over time — applying the Rime Operating Principles
• Project management of engineering work and the engineering components of product releases
• Establish best practices for on-call and incident response SOPs
• Take point on outstanding and upcoming compliance requirements
• Ensure best security practices are in place for core infrastructure
• Keep Rime Eng compliant and secure end-to-end

Benefits

• Competitive base + meaningful early-stage equity
• Health + 401k benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed