About this role
About the company
Our client is a manufacturing company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead the engineering function of a growing company, setting technical direction and building the team that delivers it. Stay hands-on with system architecture and code while growing the organization from the ground up. The work spans customer-facing software, internal systems, data infrastructure and applied machine learning.
What you'll do
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Set technical direction and an engineering roadmap across customer software, internal tools, data, infrastructure and machine learning.
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Recruit, develop and lead an engineering team built from the ground up.
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Architect cohesive systems spanning several software areas, and keep a working knowledge of the codebase so you can critique pivotal designs.
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Work alongside sales, operations, finance and production staff to turn real workflows into software.
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Raise the standard for reliability, security and observability, and measure how engineering work affects customers and operations.
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Requirements
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What we're looking for
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4+ years of experience.
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A proven record of building and scaling systems from zero at a technology company, a high-growth startup or a large organization.
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A product-focused full-stack engineer with a backend lean, comfortable spending about 70% of time on hands-on engineering and 30% on team management.
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Daily, deep use of current AI tools such as Claude or Cursor in day-to-day work.
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A bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field from a top-25 school.
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Comfortable working with both software engineers and factory operators.
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Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time to customer and vendor sites.
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Bonus points
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Exposure to mathematical optimization, data-driven product development or running learning models live in production.
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Prior exposure to industrial or physical-world engineering is a plus.
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Benefits
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Compensation and benefits
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Base salary: $225K - $300K
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Equity
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Location and work model
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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On-site, 5 days in-office per week
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Full-time