Chief Product Engineering & AI Platform

Plaud; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 260.000 - 380.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Meaningful Ownership

High-Impact Environment

Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity

Best-in-Class Equipment

Team & Culture

Descripción de la vacante

Plaud Inc. seeks an experienced head of engineering to lead multi‑team product groups across the US and Asia, owning device connections, AI transcription and summaries, and enterprise tooling. You will set the technical strategy and drive delivery across mobile, web, desktop and hardware.

You will mentor senior managers, and collaborate with Product, Design, Platform and Infrastructure to align roadmaps. Candidates should have 10+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading large teams,

Formación

• 10+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading managers of multi-team product engineering organizations (40+ engineers).
• Proven track record shipping consumer or prosumer products across mobile, web and desktop. Hardware-connected or AI-heavy products are highly preferred.
• Distributed teams across the US and Asia with a clear operating model for time zones.
• Strong technical depth: able to review architectures, challenge estimates and unblock complex projects hands-on.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered features in production, including prompts, retrieval, evals, and cost and quality tradeoffs.
• Track record of raising delivery velocity while keeping quality and team health high, backed by metrics.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication with Product, Design, executives and engineers.

Responsabilidades

• Define and drive the engineering strategy for Plaud's core product: device connection and recording, AI transcription and summaries, shared workspaces and collaboration, admin tools for business customers, and later growth.
• Lead, mentor and grow the engineering leads of every product team across the US and Asia, through hiring, coaching and a high bar for craft and delivery.
• Own engineering velocity and quality across the product teams, shortening the path from idea to shipped feature on mobile, web, desktop and the device handoff.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Platform and Infrastructure to turn priorities into a single roadmap and dated commitments.
• Establish clear end-to-end ownership, so every service, handoff and on-call rotation has one owning team, and teams run what they build.
• Build an operating model for teams that span time zones, with written specs and a fixed daily overlap, and move each team toward a single time zone over time.
• Drive AI-native engineering across every team, including evals in CI/CD, AI-assisted development and fast experiments on AI features.
• Be the Platform team's main internal customer: use shared services instead of rebuilding them, and give regular feedback on what Platform delivers.
• Resolve technical disputes between teams quickly and in writing.

Conocimientos

Software leadership

Distributed teams

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural review

AI/ML production

Multi-platform shipping

Delivery velocity

Herramientas

Gemini

Claude Code

Descripción del empleo

Plaud Inc. seeks an experienced head of engineering to lead multi‑team product groups across the US and Asia, owning device connections, AI transcription and summaries, and enterprise tooling. You will set the technical strategy and drive delivery across mobile, web, desktop and hardware.

You will mentor senior managers, and collaborate with Product, Design, Platform and Infrastructure to align roadmaps. Candidates should have 10+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading large teams,