Director of Product Engineering — UI, AI & Scale

braintrust

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages

Flexible time off

Competitive salary and equity

Wifi & cellphone stipend

Job summary

Braintrust is seeking a Director of Product Engineering to lead the team building Braintrust's core product experience. This hands-on leadership role shapes technical direction, raises our product bar, and grows an exceptional product engineering team.

You will build and lead an engineering culture of ownership while delivering world-class UI and scalable AI-powered features. You will stay close to users, product and code, collaborating with Product and Design to drive roadmaps, and make

Qualifications

Proven engineering leader with experience building and scaling teams.
Exceptional product judgment and UI craft, focusing on usability and polish.
Deep technical expertise in modern web applications; comfortable with data-intensive products.
Builder mindset with ability to balance architecture decisions and business needs.

Responsibilities

Build and lead an exceptional product engineering team focused on Braintrust's core product experience.
Elevate Braintrust UI across interaction design, performance, and reliability.
Drive technical direction and evolve frontend architecture for larger datasets and growing customers.
Collaborate with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and make critical technical decisions.
Deliver ambitious product capabilities at scale, including features like prompt playground and LLM analysis.
Lead engineering behind AI-powered product problems while maintaining speed and quality.