Director of Engineering — Build AI-Driven Manufacturing Platform

FutureTech Recruitment; Los Angeles (CA); Vor Ort; USD 180.000 - 280.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

FutureTech Recruitment is partnering with an early-stage industrial AI startup to build a new software org from the ground up. The Director of Engineering will own technical strategy and recruit a high-performing team spanning customer software, internal ops, data, infrastructure, and applied ML.

Expect 70% hands-on coding and 30% leadership, with close collaboration to turn manufacturing workflows into durable software.

Qualifikationen

• Proven 0-to-1 ownership building and scaling systems at a high-growth tech startup.
• 4-10 years of experience as a software engineer, with 1+ year leading an engineering team of 3-5.
• Product-focused full-stack SWE (backend-leaning) - comfortable with 70% hands-on engineering and 30% team management.
• Daily, deep use of frontier AI tools (e.g. Claude, Cursor) in workflow.
• Able to work on-site 5x/week in South Bay Los Angeles.
• Comfortable working with both engineers and factory/operations teams.

Aufgaben

• Set the technical strategy and engineering roadmap across customer software, internal operations, data, infrastructure, and applied ML.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing engineering team from the ground up.
• Design durable architecture across customer, commercial, and manufacturing systems while staying close enough to code to review critical designs.
• Collaborate with sales, operations, finance, and factory floor to turn real workflows into software.
• Raise the bar on reliability, security, and observability, measuring impact on customers and throughput.
• Travel up to 20% to customers and vendors across LA, SF, and Detroit.

Kenntnisse

Ownership

Team leadership

Full-stack SWE

AI tools usage

Cross-functional collaboration

Hands-on coding

Tools

Claude

Cursor

Jobbeschreibung

FutureTech Recruitment is partnering with an early-stage industrial AI startup to build a new software org from the ground up. The Director of Engineering will own technical strategy and recruit a high-performing team spanning customer software, internal ops, data, infrastructure, and applied ML.

Expect 70% hands-on coding and 30% leadership, with close collaboration to turn manufacturing workflows into durable software.