# Head of Engineering > Raydar · San Francisco, United States (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15 **Salary:** USD 250,000–350,000 **Workplace:** hybrid ## Description About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead an established engineering organization while remaining a working engineer, dividing time about equally between managing people and hands-on technical contribution. Set technical direction, work with senior leadership on planning, and help shape hiring plans for the coming months. What you'll do \- Manage and develop engineers across infrastructure, platform and product, setting priorities and expectations for ownership. \- Contribute code personally and make key calls on system design and infrastructure for business-critical services, roughly half of your time. \- Guide technical choices for machine learning model development and deployment, weighing performance, spend and stability. \- Collaborate with the founders and the CTO to convert customer feedback into a clear roadmap and dependable delivery. \- Support the professional growth of your engineers through ongoing one-on-one conversations. \- Recruit and onboard new engineers as the organization expands. ## Requirements What we're looking for \- Prior senior engineer, staff engineer or engineering manager experience at a high-growth B2B software startup. \- Present responsibility for managing a group of engineers. \- Active, current involvement in writing production code. \- Solid hands-on engineering ability across software design, architecture and infrastructure. \- A track record of leading engineering recruiting during a period of team growth. Bonus points \- Experience with backend services, APIs, distributed systems and cloud platforms. \- Exposure to large-scale AI models, GPU-based infrastructure, model training or performance tuning for model serving. \- A degree from a leading STEM university. ## Benefits Compensation and benefits \- Base salary: USD 250,000 to 350,000 per year \- Equity \- Health, dental and vision coverage \- Flexible time off Location and work model \- San Francisco, California, United States \- Hybrid, 3 days per week in office \- Full-time ## Apply [Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/9E94212A94/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)