Valency
Head of Engineering
Berkeley, CA · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 104 days ago
TypeScriptNode.jsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLAWSOAuthMachine LearningResearchLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- As our Head of Engineering, you will report directly to the CEO.
- You will work in tight collaboration with world-class peers in Head of Science and Head of Research.
- If you thrive in a small, collaborative, fast-moving environments where technical decisions have immediate, visible impact on the product and the team, this role was built for you!
Responsibilities
- Own the technical roadmap, making architectural decisions that balance shipping speed with long-term scalability
- Drive the evolution of our cloud-based infrastructure
- Anticipate scaling and reliability challenges before they become expensive, staying ahead of the product to validate approaches and surface unknowns early
- This is a building role, not a meetings role
- Drive measurable improvements in system performance, reliability, and operational cost
- Build a robust infrastructure that will scale, as we serve the needs of the global scientific community
- Be a true partner to the Head of Research and Head of Science - this is not a hand-off relationship, but tight collaborative loops
Requirements
- Experience with our stack or adjacent: Node.js/TypeScript, AWS Lambda/CDK/Step Functions, PostgreSQL, Cloudflare
- Experience scaling teams through key growth inflection points (e.g., 5 → 20 engineers)
- Familiarity with auth systems (e.g. OAuth) and observability tooling
Skills
- Deep hands-on expertise with cloud-native architectures
- Some experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), agentic frameworks, or AI-tool integration patterns
- A track record of scaling and shipping production systems under real constraints, not just designing them, but delivering them
- Ability to operate with high autonomy in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment
Benefits
- Familiarity with ML infrastructure, vector search, or document processing pipelines (added bonus for experience in research/academia)
Company info
- You will make sure we are building the right things, the right way, at the right speed.
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