Strategic Projects Lead - Coding

Job summary

San Francisco, CA · On-site · Full-time Compensation: $130,000–$150,000 base (up to $300K total cash comp) + equity ABOUT THE COMPANY A fast-growing, venture-backed AI company building the training data and evaluation infrastructure that leading frontier AI labs use to improve their models — designing high-signal datasets and running rigorous evaluations that go beyond static benchmarks.

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• through delivery — managing teams of engineers, data scientists, and ML specialists while shipping production code yourself, and interfacing directly with research teams at leading AI labs.
• What you'll be doing
• Own end-to-end technical initiatives: scoping
• building solutions, managing experts through delivery, and shipping code yourself when it unblocks the team.
• Design and build technical infrastructure and tooling for dataset generation, quality control, and delivery pipelines across multiple concurrent lab contracts.
• Manage and mentor teams of software engineers, data scientists, and ML specialists; set technical direction and hold the bar for execution velocity.
• Interface directly with research teams at leading AI labs to translate their needs into technical specs and ensure delivery meets their standards.
• Debug production issues live under pressure; rapidly context-switch between hands-on engineering, team leadership, and strategic problem-solving.
• Support the founding team on the highest-impact work — internal tooling, major contracts, and hiring.
• Tech stack
• Python; data pipelines, APIs, ML/AI tooling
• CS degree, engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated ability to ship technical projects

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• You'll own high-impact initiatives end-to-end — from

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