# Founding Director of Engineering (Remote)

**Company**: AI Acquisition
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $15,000–$40,000 / month USD
**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.

As the Founding Director of Engineering, you will:

- Lead the product managers / builder-leads, setting direction, unblocking, reviewing, and raising their tempo and quality

- Orchestrate humans + AI agents, breaking product bets into work for people and for agent fleets

- Stay hands-on, architecting and writing code, and making build-vs-buy-vs-agent calls

- Own the portfolio's delivery, making architecture decisions and setting standards for CI, review, evals, security, and logging conventions

- Reason commercially, figuring out why a product or funnel isn't working and fixing the real cause

Requirements:

- You're a player-coach, leading people and shipping code

- You're an agentic-engineering native, building with AI at the systems level

- You get leverage through others, having led engineers and/or product managers

- You've shipped, fast, more than once, ideally founding or leading 0→1 products

- You see the whole board, reasoning about the business and the user

- You're high-agency, making sensible calls and documenting assumptions

Benefits:

- Top-of-market pay, roughly $15,000–$40,000 / month USD

- No budget cap for tokens, best-in-class tooling, and frontier models

- A brilliant CTO to build alongside

- Frontier work, not maintenance

- No politics, no process theater

## Requirements

## Who you are

- Player-coach with hands-on engineering experience

- Agentic-engineering native with experience building with AI

- Proven track record of leading teams and shipping products

- Strong technical skills with ability to reason commercially

## Signals we screen for

- Experience leading engineering and/or product teams

- Hands-on agentic depth with LLMs and agent frameworks

- Portfolio of shipped products

- Commercial fluency

- Range and versatility in technical and business skills

## 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

## How to apply

- Send a Loom recording showcasing your experience and skills

- Complete a studio teardown exercise

- Provide one-line answer on recent AI/agent usage

## Skills

### Required
- agentic-engineering
- AI
- leadership
- product management
- technical skills

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

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