AI Engineering Team Lead

We're hiring the engineering leader who will own its AI core.
Small senior team, greenfield architecture and real production environments from day one. You'll be one of the founding technical leaders - writing code, shaping the architecture, and growing the team as the product scales.
What You'll Do:
Agent Architecture & Engineering:
Design and build the AI systems at the center of the product: researcher agents, deterministic runners, multi-agent orchestration across thousands of targets and hundreds of sites.
Own the full agent stack - LLM selection and behavior, RAG pipelines, tool use, memory, evaluation, and observability. Make architectural decisions that will define how the product works for years.
Drive adoption of the modern agent ecosystem: LangGraph, MCP, semantic tool discovery, hybrid edge/cloud workflows, A2A patterns. Keep pushing the frontier.
Safety & Reliability:
Design for progressive autonomy: pre-checks, fault tolerance, rollback, and full audit trails. In our customers' environments - critical infrastructure, enterprise security - a wrong action has real consequences.
Build the evaluation and observability pipelines that make autonomous agent behavior trustworthy and debuggable in production.
Partner with Security and DevOps on agent execution boundaries, especially across on-prem ↔ cloud data flows.
Technical Leadership:
Spend most of your time in the codebase. Set the technical bar by example - architecture, code quality, and engineering judgment.
Establish standards for testing, evaluation, and safe deployment of AI systems. Build the practices that scale with the team.
Work directly with the PM and enterprise design partners to shape the roadmap. Your decisions will drive the product, not just execute it.
Team:
Start with a small senior group, grow it deliberately. Hire well, mentor, and shape the engineering culture of a startup inside a public company.