- Raydar
- Los Angeles, CA
- Full-Time
- 6 days ago
- $225,000–$300,000
Head of Engineering.
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Head of Engineering: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role leads the engineering function of a growing manufacturing company, setting technical direction and building the team that delivers it.
- The Person:The person will set technical direction and an engineering roadmap, recruit and lead an engineering team, architect cohesive systems, and work alongside sales, operations, finance and production staff to turn workflows into software.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience, a proven record of building and scaling systems, a bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field, and daily use of AI tools such as Claude or Cursor.
About the role
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