Raydar
Head of Engineering
$225K–$300K
Los Angeles, California · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field from a top-25 school.
About the job
Leads the engineering function, setting technical direction and building a team while remaining hands-on across customer software, internal systems, data infrastructure, and applied machine learning.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and an engineering roadmap across software, data, infrastructure, and machine learning.
- Recruit, develop, and lead the engineering team; architect systems and review pivotal designs.
- Work with business and production teams to translate workflows into software and improve reliability, security, and observability.
What they ask for
- Proven record building and scaling systems from zero at a technology company, high-growth startup, or large organization.
- Product-focused, backend-leaning full-stack engineer; comfortable spending about 70% of time on hands-on engineering and 30% on team management.
- Daily, deep use of current AI tools such as Claude or Cursor.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field from a top-25 school; comfortable working with software engineers and factory operators; willing to travel up to 20%.
Nice to have
- Exposure to mathematical optimization, data-driven product development, or running learning models live in production.
- Prior exposure to industrial or physical-world engineering.
Pay
$225K - $300K USD base salary
Tools
Claude, Cursor
AI focus
Set direction for applied machine learning and data infrastructure; daily use of current AI tools, with bonus experience running learning models in production.
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