Head of Engineering, AI Platform

The role

You will own the agent platform roadmap and build the foundation for internal and customer-facing agent capabilities. You will hire and grow a team of senior engineers in India and act as a player-coach.

What you will do

• Own the agent platform roadmap from internal foundation to customer-facing capabilities
• Hire and grow a team of senior engineers in India
• Make architecture decisions for the agent SDK, evaluation, guardrails, serving, and observability
• Run the platform like a product in production with on-call rotation and incident response
• Operate autonomously across time zones
• Work with US-based product, agent, and research teams
• Engage directly with enterprise customers

Required qualifications

• Led an engineering team through a full cycle, hiring and shipping with it
• Built platform or infrastructure products that served multiple engineering teams
• Run LLM systems in production
• Articulate technical decisions regarding adoption and builds
• Product curious with experience sitting with users to change course

Nice to have

• Experience taking an internal platform external
• Experience with agentic systems, evaluation methodology, or LLM serving at scale
• Comfort across Python and JVM ecosystems
• Experience with data systems, SQL engines, or analytics products
• Experience running multiple models behind one platform
• Active presence in the ML/AI community in India

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Attractive stock grants
• Flexible paid time off

About the company

Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data. The SAIL team is behind AIDA, Starburst's AI product.