Profound
Member of Technical Staff, TLM, Context Engineering
San Francisco, California, Remote. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will lead the Context team to build and manage customer data integrations, knowledge base storage, and retrieval systems. You will split your time between technical leadership, architecture, and people management.
What you will do
- Lead the Context roadmap by partnering with the CTO, Head of Engineering, and product leadership
- Hire and develop a team of 4 to 8 engineers
- Drive technical decisions on retrieval quality, graph and memory schemas, sync architectures, and integration frameworks
- Own retrieval quality as a measurable product surface
- Ship code on the highest-leverage parts of the system
- Act as the engineering point of contact for integration or data issues
- Represent Context in conversations with product, sales engineering, and the executive team
- Partner with teams building agent products
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience
- At least 2 years managing or tech-leading a team
- Strong Python
- Hands-on experience building search or retrieval systems in production
- Experience integrating with third-party APIs at scale
- Experience with data synchronization and pipeline correctness
- Strong Postgres skills
- Experience hiring senior ICs and giving direct, useful feedback
- Comfortable being an IC contributor
Nice to have
- Rust is strongly preferred
- Experience with knowledge graphs or entity resolution at scale
- Experience building memory systems or context management for LLM agents
- Familiarity with MCP as both a server and a client implementer
- Experience with high-volume event ingestion and streaming systems
- Background at a B2B SaaS company that sold to enterprise
- A track record of building evaluation harnesses for non-deterministic systems
Benefits
- base salary
- equity
- full range of benefits and perks
About the company
Profound is an AI marketing platform used by the Fortune 500 and innovators. It provides research, briefs, content, campaigns, and reporting alongside agents.