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Head of Engineering

Location: San Francisco (flexible/hybrid)

At Cleanlab you’ll get to

Build and run one of the strongest engineering teams in existence, pioneering novel data-centric AI software. Our tools enable data scientists/engineers (across all industries) to effectively diagnose/fix issues in their datasets thus improving the quality of their business’s core asset.

Work with great people on interesting challenges (model deployment/monitoring, managing massive datasets, rapidly scaling cloud deployments, etc.) at a dynamic startup operating in one of the fastest growing subfields of data science & AI.

What we’re looking for

Someone whose love for people and AI/technology runs incredibly deep, as does their ambition to improve the way Data Science and Machine Learning are practiced in the future. You should currently work as an engineering manager but have extensive software engineering experience, ideally with experience in a dynamic startup environment. You should be comfortable architecting large-scale software systems from the ground up, and deeply familiar with MLOps and modern cloud applications.

You will manage a team of software engineers building a cutting-edge cloud application with many users, who each have many datasets, some of which are quite large. Your contributions to our SaaS tool will be used by data scientists/engineers across all industries to improve the quality of their data and reliability of ML models produced from this data. Come help us build the next generation of data-centric AI!

Qualifications

Candidates must have at least 7+ years work experience spanning software engineering/architecture, team management, and recruiting.

  • People-oriented and experience running software development teams
  • Up to date on modern tech stack for cloud applications
  • Up to date on the modern MLOps and Data stack

Benefits

Working at Cleanlab is awesome! Beyond the opportunity to work at a well-funded AI startup with an incredible, friendly founding team of MIT graduates, all full-time employees receive the following:

  • Annual travel stipend
    • Travel enhances our empathy with different cultures and enables us to work together more effectively. It’s how we grow and learn: traveling is an essential part of what makes us human. At Cleanlab, every two months you will receive a reimbursable travel benefit. This is a unique benefit that lets you work from Paris for a week in February, then take a backpacking trip in the Andes for a weekend in March.
  • Premium health insurance
    • We provide a fantastic $4 (we cover the rest) health insurance option. We also provide a $0 deductible 100% coverage premium health care option for those who prefer the best health insurance.
  • Stipend for attending conferences to keep up with the latest innovations in ML and software.
  • Competitive salary (+ equity offering for certain roles), with regular opportunities for a raise if things are going well.

About Us

Prior to Cleanlab, our founders (3 ML PhDs from MIT) worked at OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, AWS, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Dropbox, Oculus, Palantir, NASA, General Electric, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, Harvard, and Stanford – at every place we worked we repeatedly encountered the same issue – AI solutions failed to work reliably on real-world, human-centric data due to label errors and poor data quality. So, we spent eight years of PhD research at MIT inventing a new field to solve this problem and after successful pilots with world-leading organizations, Cleanlab emerged.

Everything we do at Cleanlab is guided by our north star – to improve the world’s ML data more easily and quicker than any other solution – enabling AI systems to train more reliably on real-world, messy, error-prone data. We develop next-generation data-centric AI, open-source algorithms and provide no-code SaaS enterprise solutions to help individuals and teams at companies (across all industries) diagnose/fix issues in their datasets and produce more reliable ML models by providing clean labels for training.

While many companies can help store/manage data or develop ML models, there exist few solutions today to improve the quality of existing data, which is the core asset of the modern enterprise. This is where you come in. At Cleanlab, you’ll be able to take ownership of critical projects that pioneer the future of data-centric AI.

We are a hybrid company, with over half of our team (and office) located in San Francisco.

  • Read about the Cleanlab team here.
  • Read how Cleanlab went from MIT PhD research to tech used by Amazon, Google, etc here.
  • See what Google, Wells Fargo, and other Cleanlab users think here.

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