AI Stealth Startup
Head of Engineering
A stealth-mode AI infrastructure startup building the intelligent automation layer for next-gen enterprise agents.
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You'll be a good fit if you have
- 12+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3–5 years in senior leadership roles managing managers and technical leads.
- A proven track record of scaling and leading high-performing engineering teams in fast-paced, product-led organizations.
- Deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), distributed systems, and large-scale, data-intensive architectures.
- Hands-on understanding of AI/ML and LLM-based architectures, with the ability to embed AI-native strategies across engineering processes.
- A strategic mindset that connects long-term technical vision with immediate business impact and measurable outcomes.
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills — capable of mentoring managers, fostering collaboration, and aligning cross-functional teams.
- Experience establishing engineering culture, scalable processes, and performance-driven execution frameworks.
- A passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and empowering teams to deliver high-quality, AI-driven products at scale.
- The ability to make sound technical and organizational decisions under ambiguity, balancing speed, scalability, and security.
- A deep sense of ownership and commitment to building systems, teams, and processes that can support 10x growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the long-term engineering strategy across infrastructure, data, AI, and product engineering, translating company bets into actionable, scalable goals.
- Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization by hiring, growing, and coaching managers and technical leads.
- Drive organization-wide AI adoption to achieve significant productivity gains through innovative, AI-enabled practices in hiring, execution, and product delivery.
- Set a high bar for execution by instituting clear operating rhythms, review mechanisms, and scalable processes that ensure predictable, high-quality outcomes.
- Provide strategic clarity and guardrails for complex, high-stakes decisions that balance product vision, scalability, and business needs.
- Ensure technical alignment across the organization through consistent application of architectural principles, quality standards, and AI-first patterns.
- Design resilient, secure, and cost-optimized systems that support 10x scale and real-time use cases.
- Champion a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and high accountability with transparent feedback loops and recognition of team accomplishments.
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Why AI Stealth Startup
Most enterprises are stuck in the 'chatbot' phase of AI, unable to deploy agents that actually perform complex work autonomously.
This startup is building the critical infrastructure layer that allows teams to scale AI agents across high-stakes business workflows with full observability.
Problems that matter. Company that matters. Infrastructure that matters.
Accelerate economic growth by connecting every talent to the work they are meant to do
Hiring got broken. Too focused on companies. Not enough on people. We're fixing it.
Human judgment plus AI. Talent first.
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We built Grapevine. More than 1 million engineers use it to share real talk about companies, salaries, culture. We saw the problem up close.
Great engineers lost in broken systems.
So we built Round1. Backed by Peak XV and Kae Capital. One mission: connect exceptional engineers to work that matters.