Talent Venture Group

Talent Venture Group

Founding Head of Engineering

California, United States

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentTemporalMachine LearningLLMsAI OrchestrationProcurement5G/LTELeadershipCollaborationWriting

About the role

  • This role can be based in any of the following states: NY, CO, CA, MA, or DC.
  • Our fast-paced environment offers many opportunities to grow your career while contributing to our success.
  • You'll work in a people-focused HR tech company where every voice will be heard.

Requirements

  • You can articulate what makes a strong early-stage technical bar.
  • you know when to specialize and when to glue things together.
  • You can translate between the customer and the codebase in the same hour.
  • You don't need a specific number of years. You need this body of evidence:
  • You've led engineering teams at real scale, and you're deliberately choosing to go small and hands-on now. The pull toward a tiny AI-native team where you're back in the code is the point, not a compromise.
  • Founding or first-few engineer at a venture-backed AI startup. You've felt what it's like to operate without a playbook.
  • Shipped agentic LLM systems to paying enterprise customers - not prototypes, not internal demos. Real users, real workflows, real escalation paths.
  • Made the "rewrite vs. keep" call on someone else's in-flight codebase - and were right about it.
  • Hired and mentored engineers. Even informally. You can articulate what makes a strong early-stage technical bar.
  • You've set an engineering culture before, on purpose, and can point to teams that were measurably better because you ran them.
  • Cleared a regulated procurement gate in production - security review, bias audit, compliance certification, or equivalent.
  • Full-stack capable. You move comfortably across backend, frontend, and infra
  • Comfortable in a conversation with a Head of Recruiting. You can translate between the customer and the codebase in the same hour.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Python.
  • Experience with Temporal (or comparable workflow orchestration platforms).
  • Direct production experience with Anthropic, OpenAI, or other major model providers - including migrating between them.
  • Open source contributions or technical writing in the AI / ML space.
  • Include 3-5 sentences on the hardest agentic-system call you've made in the last 12 months - what you decided, what you traded off, what you'd do differently.
  • Plus links to code, projects, or anything you've shipped.
  • If you have any questions or concerns about the use of AI in our hiring process, or if you would prefer an alternative assessment method, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.
  • Equal Opportunity Statement

Skills

  • Position Overview
  • What compounds is how the engineers think, ship, and raise the bar on each other.
  • What You'll Own and Drive
  • Take full ownership of the product's codebase, architecture, and roadmap.
  • Sit in customer calls weekly.
  • Translate customer signal directly into product.

Compensation

  • The salary range listed in this posting is provided for informational purposes only.

Benefits

  • Final compensation will be determined based on a number of factors, including the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience, as well as internal equity, market conditions, and business needs.

Company info

  • About Talent.com
  • Talent.com is a job platform that matches job seekers with employers in more than 50 countries.
  • We're seeking talented individuals to help us fulfill our mission of connecting the world to work.
  • how we ship, how we review, how we handle failure, how we keep velocity high without breaking trust with enterprise customers.
  • Mentor and lead future hires, setting standards for code quality, review, and shipping cadence.
  • Partner closely with product and leadership on strategy, prioritization, and customer feedback loops.
  • What you Bring
  • You don't need a specific number of years.
  • You've led engineering teams at real scale, and you're deliberately choosing to go small and hands-on now.
  • The pull toward a tiny AI-native team where you're back in the code is the point, not a compromise.
  • Founding or first-few engineer at a venture-backed AI startup.
  • You've felt what it's like to operate without a playbook.

Equal opportunity

  • Statement
  • We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any stage, please let us know.
  • #LI-Remote
  • We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
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