Founding Engineering Leader for Enterprise AI Platform

Dover; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Nth AI, builders of Nexus, is seeking a founding Head of Engineering to own the engineering execution behind our AI-native platform. You will work directly with the founders to shape architecture, build the team, and turn an emerging product into reliable enterprise software.

This hands-on leadership role requires shipping capabilities across backend, data workflows, and user interfaces, with a focus on architecture, reliability, and strong technical judgment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams while remaining technically hands-on.
• Track record shipping production B2B software for enterprise adoption.
• Strong backend and distributed-systems judgment, including APIs, asynchronous jobs, state management, integrations, and failure recovery.
• Meaningful experience with data platforms or production AI systems, with the ability to lead across both.
• Experience hiring strong engineers, clarifying ownership, and improving delivery without introducing unnecessary process.
• The ability to make sound tradeoffs under ambiguity and communicate them clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate product priorities into clear technical plans and ship complete capabilities across Nexus’s backend, orchestration, data workflows, and user experience.
• Establish clear service boundaries, durable workflow execution, useful observability, and maintainable interfaces across the platform.
• Build practices for evaluating agent behavior, validating generated assets, handling failures, and preserving human review where it matters.
• Recruit and develop exceptional software, data, and AI engineers. Set clear ownership and a high bar for technical judgment.
• Establish practical planning, code review, testing, release, and incident practices that support fast, dependable shipping.
• Partner with Product and the FDE team to turn deployment learning into reusable capabilities and prioritize the engineering work that unblocks customers.

Skills

Hands-on leadership

B2B software

Backend systems

Data platforms

Hiring engineers

Ambiguity decisions

Job description

Nth AI, builders of Nexus, is seeking a founding Head of Engineering to own the engineering execution behind our AI-native platform. You will work directly with the founders to shape architecture, build the team, and turn an emerging product into reliable enterprise software.

This hands-on leadership role requires shipping capabilities across backend, data workflows, and user interfaces, with a focus on architecture, reliability, and strong technical judgment.