Head of EngineeringSan Francisco, CA
Posted
- Work style
- Onsite
- Salary
- $200k–$500k
- Stage
- Seed
- Industry
- AI
- Visa sponsorship
- Available
- Employment
- Full-time
The opportunity
Lead engineering at a fast-growing AI platform as it scales past its first 20 people. You'll set technical direction, hire and grow the team, and stay close enough to the code to set the bar.
A seed-stage AI company, founded in 2024 and backed by well-known early-stage investors. Its platform lets businesses route work across hundreds of AI models and launch agents that do real work, hosted wherever the customer wants. Around 100 customers worldwide, from fast-growing startups to public companies. A company apartment helps new hires relocate.
What you will do
- Set technical direction and architecture across model routing, the agent harness, memory, skills and optimization
- Hire, lead and grow the engineering team as the company scales
- Define standards for fundamentals, code quality, reliability and AI-native development
- Partner with the CEO, COO and CPO on the roadmap and the hardest technical problems
- Stay hands-on enough to set the bar and keep the team's trust
What you bring
- Around 4 to 10 years of engineering experience, ideally including an early or founding role at a strong AI company
- Depth across both infrastructure and product
- AI fluency built on rigorous engineering fundamentals
- Experience hiring engineers and raising a team's bar while still shipping
- Willingness to work in person in San Francisco five days a week on an intensive schedule (roughly 9am to 9pm, six days a week)
Nice to have
- Founding or very early engineer at an AI company that scaled
- Builder or founder experience
- Strong computer science background
- Already based in San Francisco
Pay and benefits
$200k–$500ka year, full-time
- Salary range: $200,000 to $500,000 per year. This is the range the client expects to pay in good faith. The final amount depends on experience and other job-related factors.
- Competitive salary plus meaningful equity
- Relocation support
- Health, medical and dental coverage
Where you will work
The team is based in San Francisco, CA, and works onsite. We can talk about what that looks like for you.
Visa sponsorship is available for this role, including new petitions.
Why is the company hidden? Our clients hire quietly. V6 shares the name once we have spoken and you are ready.
How we hire
- ApplyTwo minutes. A resume or pasted text, plus a few lines on why you fit.
- V6 screenA practitioner reviews your application, and we call when there's a match.
- Intro call30 minutes with the founders
- Technical interviewsOne or two 60-minute deep dives
- Technical exerciseAbout 3 to 4 hours
- Work trialOne day on-site in San Francisco, with travel covered
- References
- Offer
Interview steps are set by the client and may change. V6 does not control the client's process, but we advocate for every candidate at each stage.
About this listing
V6 posts this role on behalf of a client company, which makes the hiring decision. Role details, salary range and benefits come from the client and may change or close without notice. A listing is not an offer of employment, and applying does not create an employment, agency or contractual relationship with V6 or the client. Candidates never pay V6 any fee.
Equal opportunity. V6 and our clients consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in line with the California Fair Chance Act. Need an accommodation to apply? Email [email protected].