Location: Remote (India), working with a San Francisco-based founding team
Engagement: Full-time, long-term, dedicated
Experience: 8–10+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years building production LLM applications and agents
Openings: 1
Time zone: Flexible schedule, with a daily live overlap with the founders

About the ClientOur client is an early-stage AI startup in San Francisco, founded by alumni of Harvard and MIT. The company is in stealth. It is building an agent-based product that takes complex, high-stakes paperwork off the hands of US families: working out what applies to them, researching official sources, handling correspondence and following up over weeks, with every step checked and backed by evidence.
Parts of the product are already built and running in test. The team today is two co-founders and one engineer. As Lead Engineer, you will be the most senior technical person on the team. You will be the founders’ technical partner, own the architecture, and lead the product into production with real users.

The Role: CTO Judgement,



Builder’s HandsWe are looking for someone with the judgement of a CTO who still writes code every day. Expect roughly 70–80% of your week to be hands-on: designing, building, reviewing and shipping. The rest goes into technical direction, standards and growing the team.
• Own the architecture end to end, and be accountable for how the system behaves in production.
• Be the founders’ technical partner: shape the roadmap, make build-vs-buy calls, size work honestly, and push back when something is the wrong thing to build.
• Set the engineering bar for code review, testing, evals, security and releases.
• Lead and mentor the engineers on the team, and help interview future hires.
• Lead from the front in production: when something breaks, you’re on it, and you make sure it doesn’t break the same way twice.
This role is not for you if you haven’t shipped production code in the last 12 months, or you’d rather manage engine

📌 Lead AI Engineer (India)
🏢 Metric Tree Labs
📍 India