Engineering Lead

About Us

Encord is building the AI infrastructure of the future. Soon, every big company will be an AI company, and they will need to build, curate, annotate and understand big datasets to train their models. Encord helps them do this. The success of any AI application today is driven by the quality of the training data, and evaluation sets used. In most cases, creating high quality datasets are the most costly and time-consuming part of getting a product to market.

Encord is a team of AI researchers, computer scientists, physicists and quants, who felt first-hand how the lack of tools to prepare quality training data was impeding the progress of building AI. It is still early for AI. The potential of the technology is clear, but the tools and processes surrounding it are still primitive. This is why we started Encord.

We are a talented and ambitious team of 100+, working at the cutting edge of multimodal and embodied AI, backed by top investors, including CRV and Y Combinator, leading industry executives like Luc Vincent, former VP of AI at Meta, and other top Bay Area leaders in AI. We are one the fastest growing companies in our space, and are consistently rated as the best product in the market by our customers. We have big plans ahead and are looking for our Engineering Manager to join us in building our team.

Responsibilities

- Lead and manage a squad of 4-5 engineers, building our core product
- Collaborate with the cofounders, product managers, and senior engineers to define the product roadmap and ensure it aligns with the company's mission and goals
- Drive speedy delivery of high quality features and guide your team towards engineering best practices, including in code reviews, testing, and writing useful documentation
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and ownership within the engineering team
- Recruit, interview, hire, and onboard world-class engineers
- Mentor and coach individual engineers to help them grow and develop their skills

About you

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years of experience leading a team of engineers
- Strong technical background in computer science or a related field
- Experience building and scaling complex software systems
- Experience leading a fast-moving, high-performing engineering team
- Proven ability to recruit and develop technically excellent engineers
- Passion for building products that are loved by their users
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with machine learning, and in particular computer vision, robotics, and embodied AI is a plus

We encourage people from all backgrounds, cultures and skill levels to apply. It is okay to not meet all requirements listed as we are looking for individuals who are passionate, eager to learn.

What We Offer

- Competitive salary, commission and equity in a hyper growth business.
- Strong in-person culture: most of our team is in the office 3+ days a week.
- Room to grow into anything you choose to — a year ago we were 50 people, now we're at 100+. We'll be growing very quickly over the next 24 months and there will be a wide scope for you to grow into roles with greater responsibility.
- 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays.

Our work is at the intersection of cutting edge AI use cases, and the engineering challenges that come with handling massive scale. Encord offers a rare opportunity to be part of a startup with a clear mission and vision, and with exceptional product-market fit. You will get to explore and build enterprise AI use cases across many different industry verticals such as healthcare, robotics, agentic generative AI and many more.