Radical AI
Director of Software Engineering
$237K–$350K
New York, NY · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Jun 3, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management or technical lead role.
About the job
Build and lead Radical AI’s software engineering team while remaining hands-on in code, architecture, and technical strategy for its self-driving lab platform.
What you'll do
- Hire, develop, and retain engineers; establish effective team processes and culture.
- Write and review code, contribute to architecture, and help debug production issues.
- Own the software roadmap and align technical strategy with business, product, science, and hardware needs.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in engineering management or a technical lead role.
- Experience growing and stabilizing engineering teams in fast-moving environments; ability to establish processes without bureaucracy.
- Strong systems thinking and ability to design complex distributed systems and communicate tradeoffs.
- Fluency in Go and/or Python; based in or willing to relocate to New York City for regular in-person work.
Nice to have
- Experience with hybrid cloud/on-prem deployments or customer-site delivery involving hardware and software.
- Background in robotics, automation, scientific computing, agentic systems, LLM workflows, or AI-adjacent infrastructure; familiarity with containerization, Kubernetes, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code.
Pay
USD 237,000–350,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation
AI focus
The platform combines AI with autonomous robotics to run experiments, analyze results, and iterate continuously; the role may involve agentic systems, LLM workflows, or AI-adjacent infrastructure.
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