# Founding Director of Engineering (Remote)

**Company**: AI Acquisition
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $15,000–$40,000 / month
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137175740

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## Description

We build many products at once with small teams of humans + AI coding agents. You run that engine , you lead the product managers, orchestrate the agent fleets, set the technical bar, and still ship code yourself. Player-coach, not a hands-off manager.

We're an AI-native venture studio. We stand up new software products , our own and for clients , fast, on top of an in-house agent platform (per-chat sandboxes that scaffold, build, test, deploy and database whole apps; subagents; MCP/skills).

What you get here that you won't get most places:

- Real scope, real ownership. You own delivery across multiple products, lead the PMs/builders who run them, and are the technical truth-source the team ladders up to.

- No budget cap for tokens, no babysitting. Best-in-class tooling, frontier models, every AI coding harness and agent framework you want , and nobody counting your tokens.

- A brilliant CTO to build alongside. You report to a CPO/CTO who is genuinely excellent and hands-on; you'll get sharper fast, and you'll have the air cover to move.

- Frontier work, not maintenance. Agentic systems, net-new products, an internal platform that builds other products.

- Top-of-market pay, paid properly and on time.

What you'll actually do:

- Lead the product managers / builder-leads. Each owns a product or venture; you set direction, unblock, review, and raise their tempo and quality.

- Orchestrate humans + AI agents. Break product bets into work for people and for agent fleets, decide what's an agent job vs. deterministic code, and get correct, shipped output back.

- Stay hands-on. You still architect and write code , the hardest plumbing, the risky spikes, the reference implementations.

- Own the portfolio's delivery. Multiple products shipping in parallel, fast, without it turning to mush.

- Set the standards that let a small team ship safely at speed , CI, review, evals, security and logging conventions, the guardrails that keep quality high while agents and people ship weekly.

- Reason commercially. Figure out why a product or funnel isn't working from first principles, and fix the real cause.

Requirements:

- You're a player-coach. You lead people and you still ship.

- You're an agentic-engineering native. You don't just use AI , you build with it at the systems level: agents, memory, tools, orchestration, evals, failure modes.

- You get leverage through others. You've led engineers and/or product managers and gotten a team (or a fleet of agents) to produce far more than you could alone.

- You've shipped, fast, more than once. Ideally you've founded or led 0→1 products.

- You see the whole board. Technical, but you reason about the business and the user.

- You're right, and so is your team's work. You install the standards that mean shipped work is tested and works.

- You're high-agency. Drop you a one-line product bet and you make sensible calls, document assumptions, and ship.

Signals we screen for:

- You've led an engineering and/or product team.

- Hands-on agentic depth , you build with LLMs and agent frameworks.

- A portfolio of shipped products.

- Commercial fluency.

- Range.

What this role is NOT:

- Not a hands-off manager.

- Not a pure IC.

- Not a process/ceremony role.

- Not a place that needs all-nighters.

Benefits:

- Compensation: roughly $15,000–$40,000 / month USD (~$180K–$480K annualized), contractor, paid monthly and on time.

- Logistics: Remote, anywhere with enough daily overlap to actually lead the team.

## Skills

### Required
- agentic-engineering
- AI
- leadership
- product management
- orchestration
- coding

### Nice to have
- LLMs
- agent frameworks
- commercial fluency
- martech/sales-tech depth
- venture-studio / forward-deployed background

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