# Head of Engineering

> Raydar · Los Angeles, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-29

**Salary:** USD 225,000–300,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

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

\- Set technical direction and an engineering roadmap across customer software, internal tools, data, infrastructure and machine learning.

\- Recruit, develop and lead an engineering team built from the ground up.

\- Architect cohesive systems spanning several software areas, and keep a working knowledge of the codebase so you can critique pivotal designs.

\- Work alongside sales, operations, finance and production staff to turn real workflows into software.

\- Raise the standard for reliability, security and observability, and measure how engineering work affects customers and operations.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- 4+ years of experience.

\- A proven record of building and scaling systems from zero at a technology company, a high-growth startup or a large organization.

\- 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.

\- Daily, deep use of current AI tools such as Claude or Cursor in day-to-day work.

\- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field from a top-25 school.

\- Comfortable working with both software engineers and factory operators.

\- Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time to customer and vendor sites.

Bonus points

\- Exposure to mathematical optimization, data-driven product development or running learning models live in production.

\- Prior exposure to industrial or physical-world engineering is a plus.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: $225K - $300K

\- Equity

Location and work model

\- Los Angeles, CA, United States

\- On-site, 5 days in-office per week

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/656AC4E78F/apply)

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