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Director of Engineering
Job Summary
Seeking a Director of Engineering to serve as the technical backbone for an early-stage startup building conversational AI products. This is a hands-on founding role with significant equity upside and a direct path to engineering leadership as the company scales from beta to paid users.
Essential Functions
- Ship full-stack features across web applications, AI interviewer systems, and conversational AI experiences end-to-end
- Build and refine agentic workflows, memory retrieval systems, and voice-driven AI interactions
- Evaluate and manage a small engineering team while setting technical direction
- Collaborate directly with founders on product vision, architecture decisions, and platform scaling
- Establish engineering quality standards, testing practices, and scalable technical foundation
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of full-stack engineering experience
- Experience building products from 0 to 1, ideally at an early-stage startup
- Hands-on experience shipping consumer-facing AI products to real users
- Hands-on building experience with AI/ML, LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows
- Full-stack development expertise with cloud infrastructure experience
- Product-minded approach with understanding of user experience and emotional product quality
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with voice or conversational AI
- AWS cloud infrastructure expertise
- Prior management or technical lead experience
- Familiarity with data pipelines and API integrations
Technical Skills
- Full-stack web development
- AWS
- LLMs
- Agentic workflows
- RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
- Voice AI
- Data pipelines
- API integrations
Education & Certifications
Degree requirements not specified. Relevant technical background and demonstrated experience required.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range $150,000 to $180,000 with significant equity upside.