AfterQuery
Staff Platform Engineer - Applied AI
San Francisco · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 56 days ago
Platform EngineeringValuationResearchLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- ABOUT AFTERQUERY AfterQuery https://www.afterquery.com/ is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development.
- This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI.
- Since raising our $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, AfterQuery has grown well over a $100M revenue run rate.
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Manage a small group of engineers and own their output end-to-end
- Hands-on Development: Write code, review systems, and contribute directly to critical builds
- Execution: Drive projects forward quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality
- Hiring & Mentorship: Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers to raise the overall team bar
- 60/40 Split between building + managing engineers
- Desire to remain hands-on with code and system design
- In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it.
- You'll lead engineers, stay hands-on in the code, and drive execution across critical systems.
- Manage a small group of engineers and own their output end-to-end
- Drive projects forward quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality
Requirements
- Experience managing or leading high-performing engineering teams (5-15 engineers)
- Proven ability to ship production systems in fast-paced environments
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, rapidly changing contexts
Company info
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with ops, domain experts, and customers
- We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models.
- Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve.
- We're hiring an Staff Platform Engineer - Applied AI who's a strong IC and manager.
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