Head of AI Engineering & Platform Leadership (SF Onsite)

raydar; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, medical and dental coverage

Relocation support

Job summary

Raydar, an artificial intelligence company in San Francisco, seeks a Head of Engineering to set the technical direction across core systems and lead a growing team. The role blends hands-on coding with strategic architecture and collaboration with executives and product leaders.

You will hire and mentor engineers, define standards for code quality and reliability, and tackle the hardest scaling problems. Strong CS/engineering background and startup experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 4 to 10 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Proven skill across both low-level systems work and user-facing product engineering.
• Fluency in AI-driven development and the ability to set technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and architecture across the platform’s core systems.
• Recruit, hire and develop an engineering team as the organization grows.
• Define engineering standards covering fundamentals, code quality, reliability and AI-assisted development.
• Partner with executive and product leaders on roadmap decisions and scaling challenges.

Skills

Low-level systems

User-facing product engineering

AI-driven development

Engineering leadership

Hands-on architecture

Education

Computer science or engineering degree

Job description

Raydar, an artificial intelligence company in San Francisco, seeks a Head of Engineering to set the technical direction across core systems and lead a growing team. The role blends hands-on coding with strategic architecture and collaboration with executives and product leaders.

You will hire and mentor engineers, define standards for code quality and reliability, and tackle the hardest scaling problems. Strong CS/engineering background and startup experience are essential.