Director of Engineering
Core
Build and run the engineering organization for a frontier AI lab developing tabular foundation models, serving customers via managed APIs and self-hosted open weights.
Role type
Director of Engineering (first dedicated engineering leader)
Builds
Tabular foundation models (TabPFN) and the engineering infrastructure supporting their deployment
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering organization leadership (10+ people), platform/infrastructure ownership at scale, security and compliance program management, startup and large organization experience, AI coding tools adoption
Preferred skills
Scaling engineering orgs (25 to 60+), leading engineering through acquisition, bridging research and production code, transforming team workflows with AI tools
Technologies
Cloud platforms, managed APIs, customer VPCs, AI coding tools
Responsibilities
Manage and grow the engineering team including building the management layer, build the hiring machine and design interview loops, own engineering standards and velocity, own security and compliance program (SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001), own engineering collaboration with SAP, act as a sparring partner to founders on org design
Seniority
Director, hands-on operator
