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Us Founding Engineer
Build the data infrastructure for AI applications to enhance model development efficiency.
San Francisco, California, United States
Senior
1 month ago
✨ About The Role
- The Founding Engineer will kick off engineering operations in San Francisco, taking holistic ownership of product development.
- They will be responsible for all development and support for US operations, working across the technical stack.
- The role involves end-to-end ownership of projects, including product, design, architectural decisions, deployment, and measuring user impact.
- The candidate will work within a high-performing team that has built a product that customers love, contributing to a direct and multiplicative impact on the company.
- The position requires tackling complex domains and immense scale with simple solutions, leveraging expertise to solve challenging problems.
- Autonomy and collaboration are emphasized, allowing team members to make decisions and drive their work forward while supporting each other.
âš¡ Requirements
- The ideal candidate is a builder who enjoys all aspects of creating software and complete products, demonstrating comfort across the technical stack.
- They should possess strong problem-solving skills and think from first principles, allowing them to tackle complex challenges effectively.
- A successful candidate operates at speed, consistently seeking to accelerate processes without compromising quality.
- They should be driven by high impact, ensuring their work leads to tangible outcomes and improvements.
- Comfort with uncertainty is essential, as the role involves tackling problems without predefined solutions and making autonomous decisions.
- Being a team player is crucial, as collaboration and supporting others in a high-performing team environment are key aspects of the role.
- The candidate should have extensive experience, having developed and maintained multiple systems from scratch, understanding the trade-offs involved in building reliable software.
About Encord
Software to help you safely develop, test, and deploy AI systems