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What You'll Do
Technical Direction
- Define the long-term architecture for A1’s AI systems, infrastructure, and developer platform
- Evaluate trade-offs between speed of iteration and long-term system design
- Ensure systems are designed for scalability, reliability, and long-term evolution
- Guide key decisions across model integration, data pipelines, distributed systems, and product architecture
Engineering Leadership
- Work with engineers to translate product direction into clear technical execution
- Help structure engineering workstreams and keep teams aligned on priorities
- Maintain high engineering standards while keeping the team focused on shipping
- Establish engineering culture, development practices, and technical standards across the company
Building the Team
- Build and scale a world-class engineering team across key talent hubs including China and US
- Identify strong technical leaders and help build a high-quality engineering organization
- Define hiring standards and interview processes to maintain a high engineering bar
Coordination and Execution
- Work closely with product, research, and leadership teams
- Ensure technical workstreams move forward smoothly across teams and locations
- Help resolve cross-team technical and execution challenges
What You Will Need
- Strong technical foundation in system architecture, large-scale systems, distributed architecture.
- Ability to reason clearly about complex systems and make pragmatic technical decisions
- Experience building or leading high-performing engineering teams
- Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and engineering priorities
- Comfortable operating in early-stage environments with high ambiguity
- Clear communication and ability to align teams
We are particularly interested in candidates who enjoy building teams, superior products and shaping engineering organisations.
