Head of Engineering

Datawizz; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary based on experience

Meaningful equity

Opportunity to be a founding member

Job summary

A tech company specializing in AI solutions is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead its engineering team in San Francisco. This role includes defining the roadmap and ensuring technology scalability. Responsibilities involve leading technical direction, mentoring talent, and developing core systems. The ideal candidate has experience in high-growth environments and distributed systems. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $50,000 to $500,000, along with equity and an opportunity to be a founding member of a growing company.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams or organizations at startups or high-growth companies.
• Proven ability to build and scale complex distributed systems.
• Skill in managing and mentoring high-performing technical talent.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organization, setting technical direction and standards.
• Build and mentor a world-class engineering team.
• Oversee development of ML routing engine and training pipelines.
• Establish engineering processes and a high-performance culture.
• Contribute to code design and building core systems.

Skills

Leading engineering teams

Building complex distributed systems

Managing technical talent

Shipping products in fast-paced environments

Job description

The Company

Datawizz helps companies reduce LLM costs by 85% while improving accuracy by over 20% by combining large and small models and automatically routing requests. We started in 2025 with the mission of making AI efficient, affordable and more accurate than ever before.

Datawizz sits between the application and the LLM, automatically logging requests, evaluating them on different models, and training custom SLMs for repeated tasks. Datawizz then automatically routes every request to the best model - significantly reducing costs and improving accuracy.

The Role

As Head of Engineering, you’ll be responsible for building and leading our engineering team. You’ll work closely with the founder to define the roadmap, oversee architecture and execution, and ensure our technology scales as we grow.

You will:

• Lead the engineering organization - setting technical direction, priorities, and standards
• Build and mentor a world-class engineering team from the ground up
• Oversee development of our ML routing engine, SLM training pipelines, model evaluation frameworks, and customer-facing platform
• Establish engineering processes, best practices, and a high-performance culture
• Ship code! Help design and build core systems alongside the team
• This role is in-office, 5 days/week, based in San Francisco.

You might be a great fit if you have experience with:

• Leading engineering teams or organizations at startups or high-growth companies
• Building and scaling complex distributed systems and developer platforms
• Managing and mentoring high-performing technical talent
• Shipping products quickly in fast-paced environments

Benefits

• Competitive salary, based on experience level (Annual compensation range: $50,000-$500,000)
• Meaningful equity
• Opportunity to be a founding member of a growing company