Director of Engineering

Job Description

<h3>Job Description</h3><p>Job Description<p><p>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.</p><p>Our Engineering Directors are highly technical: you will need to be a domain expert in one or more areas of distributed systems, online security, and machine learning.</p><p>Responsibilities include building and leading teams ensuring engineers are productive, and shipping what our customers need while maintaining high code quality, security, and service availability standards.</p><br />What you’ll do:<ul><li>Recruit, motivate, lead, and manage highly technical teams focused on delivering online security and machine learning products at scale.</li><li>Act as a liaison between product, engineering, customers, and sales to articulate and translate both complex business requirements and technology solutions into useful products.</li><li>Maintain a high level of assurance and software quality standards while maintaining development velocity: availability is core to nearly every requirement.</li><li>Define, drive and govern automation and instrumentation to ensure we maintain high observability and automate break-fix as much as possible.</li><li>In partnership with sales and product teams, model go-to-market strategies for new offerings, oversee architecture, boost client acquisition capabilities, and improve delivery.</li><li>Put in place effective hiring and onboarding strategies.</li></ul><br />What we’re looking for:<ul><li>Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience leading engineering teams of 20-60 people with a strong background in security products and machine learning.</li><li>Familiarity with high availability and high security development processes, supported by strong knowledge of Python, NodeJS, and Go or Rust.</li><li>Experience and demonstrated success with DevOps/systems integration, lightweight development practices, meeting strong SLAs, test-driven design in large scale internet-facing systems.</li><li>Familiarity with distributed systems design on orchestration platforms like Kubernetes: queue-first architectures, sharding, etc.</li><li>Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.</li><li>Demonstrated architecture and business/product need mapping expertise (gather requirements, problem solve, and reason about the best way forward given needs, timeline, and available resources).</li></ul><br />What we offer:<ul><li>Fully remote position with flexible working hours.</li><li>An inspiring team of colleagues spread all over the world.</li><li>Pleasant, modern development and deployment workflows: ship early, ship often.</li><li>High impact: lots of users, happy customers, high growth, and cutting edge R&D.</li><li>Flat organization, direct interaction with customer teams.</li></ul><p></p><p>We celebrate equality of opportunity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members. </p><p>Join us as we transform cybersecurity, user privacy, and machine learning online!</p><p></p><p>Please note that all positions require pre-employment screening, including third-party verification of work history, education, and identity, as well as a final in-person interview and identity verification step, which will be conducted in your country of residence.</p></p></p>