Director of Engineering

FutureTech Recruitment; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

FutureTech Recruitment seeks a senior engineering leader to set strategy and architecture across customer software, internal ops, data, and applied ML. You will stay hands-on with engineering while building and guiding a high-performing team.

Candidates should have 4–10 years in software engineering, with at least one year leading a 3–5 person team, backend-leaning, product-focused full-stack expertise, and experience using frontier AI tools. On-site in the South Bay.

Qualifications

• 4–10 years of software engineering experience, with leadership of a team of 3–5 members.
• Ownership of building and scaling systems at a high-growth startup.
• Backend-leaning, product-focused full-stack engineers who use frontier AI tools deeply.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy and architecture across software, data, infrastructure, and ML while remaining hands-on.
• Build and lead the engineering team, translating manufacturing workflows into software.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Software Engineering

Technical Strategy

Engineering Roadmap Development

Full-Stack Development

Backend Development

System Architecture

Team Building

Applied Machine Learning

Data Engineering

Infrastructure

Reliability Engineering

Security

Observability

Manufacturing Operations

AI Tools

Job description

Set technical strategy and architecture across customer-facing software, internal operations, data, infrastructure, and applied machine learning, while remaining hands‑on with engineering work. Build and lead the engineering team, translate manufacturing and business workflows into software, and improve reliability, security, observability, customer outcomes, and factory throughput.

Requirements

Requires 4–10 years of software engineering experience, including at least one year leading a team of 3–5, and demonstrated ownership of building and scaling systems at a high‑growth startup. Candidates should be backend‑leaning, product‑focused full‑stack engineers who use frontier AI tools deeply, can work effectively with engineering and factory operations teams, and can work on‑site five days per week in the South Bay.

Key Skills

• Engineering Leadership
• Software Engineering
• Technical Strategy
• Engineering Roadmap Development
• Full‑Stack Development
• Backend Development
• System Architecture
• Team Building
• Applied Machine Learning
• Data Engineering
• Infrastructure
• Reliability Engineering
• Security
• Observability
• Manufacturing Operations
• AI Tools

Benefits

• Equity