Software Engineering Lead

Crossing Hurdles; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Equinox membership

Private chef

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles is hiring a Tech Lead for a fast-growing startup in San Francisco that develops AI infrastructure. The role requires over 5 years of experience in fullstack or backend engineering at top-tier companies. You will be responsible for building core infrastructure to improve AI agents' reliability, tackling issues like hallucinations and production failures.

Join an elite team in a startup environment, with top compensation, benefits, Equinox membership, and a private chef.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in fullstack or backend engineering at top tier companies.

Responsibilities

• Build core infrastructure that makes AI agents reliable.
• Fix hallucinations, drift, and production failures.
• Work directly with customers and shape the roadmap.

Skills

Fullstack Engineering

Backend Engineering

AI systems

Monitoring and evaluation

Job description

Crossing Hurdles

Crossing Hurdles is a global recruitment firm partnering with leading US-based startups. We are hiring for a fast-growing startup building AI infrastructure that helps teams monitor, evaluate, and improve autonomous agents in production. Their platform tracks agent behavior, detects failures, and turns real-world data into insights to make AI systems more reliable and scalable.

Role Snapshot

• Role: Tech Lead
• YOE: 5+ years of experience in fullstack or backend engineering at top tier companies

About The Clint

The company builds infrastructure for Agent Behaviour Monitoring (ABM), surfacing behavioural issues like instruction drift and context loss that traditional observability misses. Teams use it to understand how autonomous agents perform in production by clustering patterns across conversations and workflows, correlating regressions to interaction types, and pinpointing where reliability breaks down.

Why should you consider?

• Build core infrastructure that makes AI agents reliable by fixing hallucinations, drift, and production failures
• Join a sub-20 elite team shipping at massive velocity
• Get founding-level ownership by working directly with customers and shaping the roadmap
• Top compensation plus full benefits, Equinox, and a private chef