Engineering Director: AI, Systems & Team Lead

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

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.