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Founding Director of Engineering (Remote)

AI Acquisition
CompanyAI Acquisition
CategoryEngineering
LocationUnited States
RemoteRemote
EmploymentFull-time
LevelDirector
SalaryNot stated by the employer
Posted21 Jul 2026
Last verified11 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (workable)
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Description
In one line:  We build many products at once with small teams of humans + AI coding agents. You run that engine — you lead the product managers, orchestrate the agent fleets, set the technical bar, and still ship code yourself. Player-coach, not a hands-off manager. Why this is one of the best seats in AI right now We're an AI-native venture studio. We stand up new software products — our own and for clients — fast, on top of an in-house agent platform (per-chat sandboxes that scaffold, build, test, deploy and database whole apps; subagents; MCP/skills). Our operating model is humans  and  AI coding agents on one board: work gets assigned to agents like teammates, and a small team ships what used to take a big one. You'd be the person who makes that machine run across the portfolio. What you get here that you won't get most places: Real scope, real ownership.  You own delivery across multiple products, lead the PMs/builders who run them, and are the technical truth-source the team ladders up to. This is a build-the-org seat, not a maintain-the-org seat. No budget cap for tokens, no babysitting.  Best-in-class tooling, frontier models, every AI coding harness and agent framework you want — and nobody counting your tokens. If you've been throttled by a $20 plan while doing real work, that ends here. A brilliant CTO to build alongside.  You report to a CPO/CTO who is genuinely excellent and hands-on; you'll get sharper fast, and you'll have the air cover to move. Frontier work, not maintenance.  Agentic systems, net-new products, an internal platform that builds other products. You'll work with the newest models and harnesses the week they drop. Top-of-market pay, paid properly and on time.  We pay our best people what they're worth and we don't play games with it. (See comp below.) No politics, no process theater.  We're direct with each other — genuine, but not soft. Speed, output, and quality beat ceremony. What you'll actually do Lead the product managers / builder-leads.  Each owns a product or venture; you set direction, unblock, review, and raise their tempo and quality. You hire and grow this team. Orchestrate humans + AI agents.  Break product bets into work for people and for agent fleets, decide what's an agent job vs. deterministic code, and get correct, shipped output back. Stay hands-on.  You still architect and write code — the hardest plumbing, the risky spikes, the reference implementations. You out-build when you need to. Own the portfolio's delivery.  Multiple products shipping in parallel, fast, without it turning to mush. You make the build-vs-buy-vs-agent calls and the architecture decisions. Set the standards that let a small team ship safely at speed  — CI, review, evals, security and logging conventions, the guardrails that keep quality high while agents and people ship weekly. Reason commercially.  Figure out  why  a product or funnel isn't working from first principles, and fix the real cause — you think about the business and the user, not just the code. Requirements Who you are You're a player-coach.  You lead people  and  you still ship. A leadership title where you can no longer build is not what this is — and not what you want. You're an agentic-engineering native.  You don't just  use  AI — you build  with  it at the systems level: agents, memory, tools, orchestration, evals, failure modes. You use Claude Code / Codex / Cursor and agent harnesses daily and push them to their limits. You get leverage through others.  You've led engineers and/or product managers and gotten a team (or a fleet of agents) to produce far more than you could alone — without becoming a bottleneck or a status-chaser. You've shipped, fast, more than once.  Ideally you've founded or led 0→1 products. You've turned ar