AfterQuery

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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