Intuition Machines is hiring a
Director of Engineering

Summary

The job is for an Engineering Director at Intuition Machines, a global company specializing in AI/ML for enterprise security. The role involves leading engineering teams, acting as a liaison between departments, maintaining high software quality standards, defining automation strategies, and more. The position is fully remote with flexible hours.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience leading engineering teams of 20-60 people
• Familiarity with high availability and high-security development processes, supported by strong knowledge of Python, NodeJS, and, ideally, C/C++, Go, or Rust
• Experience and demonstrated success with DevOps/systems integration, lightweight development practices, meeting strong SLAs, test-driven design in large scale internet-facing systems
• Familiarity with distributed systems design on orchestration platforms like Kubernetes: queue-first architectures, sharding, etc
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated architecture and business/product need mapping expertise: gathering requirements, problem-solving, and reasoning about the best way forward given needs, timeline, and available resources

Responsibilities

• Lead the recruitment, motivation, and management of highly technical teams focused on delivering online security and machine learning products at scale
• Act as a liaison between product, engineering, customers, and sales to articulate and translate both complex business requirements and technology solutions into useful products
• Maintain a high level of assurance and software quality standards while maintaining development velocity; availability is core to nearly every requirement
• Define, drive, and govern automation and instrumentation to ensure we maintain high observability and automate break-fix as much as possible
• In partnership with sales and product teams, model go-to-market strategies for new offerings, oversee architecture, boost client acquisition capabilities, and improve delivery
• Implement effective hiring and onboarding strategies

Benefits

• Fully remote position with flexible working hours
• An inspiring team of colleagues spread all over the world
• Pleasant, modern development and deployment workflows: ship early, ship often
• High impact: lots of users, happy customers, high growth, and cutting edge R&D
• Flat organization, direct interaction with customer teams