VP of Engineering
Independent nonprofit AI research lab building open technology for understanding and scalable public oversight of AI systems.
About Transluce
Transluce develops research, platforms, and tools to help people understand, evaluate, and steer advanced AI systems in the public interest. Its active offerings include Docent, a behavior-analysis platform for AI-agent transcripts, and Monitor, an AI-driven interface for observing and steering model computations.
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About the Role
You will lead the engineering function through technical strategy, operating systems, culture, and hiring. You will align goals and roadmaps across the organization, manage trade-offs, develop engineers and managers, facilitate collaboration, and set infrastructure vision and technical-stack priorities.
Requirements
- Experience leading a small fast-growing organization through growth
- Organizational design and technical strategy experience
- Experience hiring and inspiring senior engineers, researchers, and managers
- Strong people management and manager mentorship skills
- Ability to make technical decisions at an appropriate level of detail
Responsibilities
- Drive technical and operational excellence across engineering
- Hire and retain a technical team
- Develop engineers' and managers' careers
- Align organizational and team goals, priorities, and roadmaps
- Manage competing priorities and explain trade-offs
- Communicate technical strategy and direction
- Facilitate collaboration across teams
- Set infrastructure vision and prioritization
- Design the overall platform and technical stack with senior engineers