Engineering Director - Remote

Overview

Intuition Machines uses AI/ML to build enterprise security products. We apply our research to systems that serve hundreds of millions of people, with a team distributed around the world. You are probably familiar with our best-known product, the hCaptcha security suite. Our approach is simple: low overhead, small teams, and rapid iteration.

In Short

• Lead the recruitment, motivation, and management of highly technical teams focused on delivering online security and machine learning products at scale.
• Act as a liaison between product, engineering, customers, and sales to articulate and translate both complex business requirements and technology solutions into useful products.
• Maintain a high level of assurance and software quality standards while maintaining development velocity; availability is core to nearly every requirement.
• Define, drive, and govern automation and instrumentation to ensure we maintain high observability and automate break-fix as much as possible.
• In partnership with sales and product teams, model go-to-market strategies for new offerings, oversee architecture, boost client acquisition capabilities, and improve delivery.
• Implement effective hiring and onboarding strategies.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience leading engineering teams of 20-60 people.
• Familiarity with high availability and high-security development processes, supported by strong knowledge of Python, NodeJS, and, ideally, C/C++, Go, or Rust.
• Experience and demonstrated success with DevOps/systems integration, lightweight development practices, meeting strong SLAs, test-driven design in large scale internet-facing systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems design on orchestration platforms like Kubernetes: queue-first architectures, sharding, etc.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated architecture and business/product need mapping expertise: gathering requirements, problem-solving, and reasoning about the best way forward given needs, timeline, and available resources.

Benefits

• Fully remote position with flexible working hours.
• An inspiring team of colleagues spread all over the world.
• Pleasant, modern development and deployment workflows: ship early, ship often.
• High impact: lots of users, happy customers, high growth, and cutting edge R&D.
• Flat organization, direct interaction with customer teams.