Technical Projects Lead

Title of Role: Technical Projects Lead

Location: San Francisco CA (FiDi On-site 5 days/week half-day Sunday)
Company Stage of Funding: Series A trajectory ($34M raised)
Office Type: On-site
Salary: $110000 $150000 base Meaningful Equity Performance Bonus (potential $300K)
Visa: Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates (no new H1Bs)

Company Description

Our client is a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure company building frontier data systems for the worlds leading AI labs.

The company works directly with top-tier AI organizations including OpenAI Anthropic Google Meta and Amazon helping power next-generation model training through advanced datasets experimentation systems and data infrastructure for agentic workflows.

Founded in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator the company has raised $34M and is already generating 8-figure revenue with exceptional growth velocity.

Their work sits at the cutting edge of AI research infrastructure enabling frontier labs to solve some of the hardest reasoning and agentic systems problems in the industry.

The team is highly talent-dense with leadership backgrounds spanning Citadel Securities Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley and Silver Lake.

This is a rare opportunity to join a hypergrowth AI company as an early operational-technical leader helping drive critical customer-facing projects.

What You Will Do

• Own technical client projects end-to-end
• Manage relationships with leading AI lab customers
• Coordinate project execution across engineering and operations
• Architect technical workflows for data generation and review systems
• Work cross-functionally with engineering to solve customer problems
• Manage teams of domain experts across technical verticals
• Translate customer requirements into execution plans
• Drive delivery under tight deadlines
• Support frontier AI research initiatives
• Help shape internal operational systems and processes
• Execute high-priority cross-functional initiatives
• Operate with significant autonomy and ownership

Ideal Candidate Background

• 03 years of technical or project ownership experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience shipping code (internships research projects or production systems)
• Highly scrappy and execution-oriented
• Comfortable owning external-facing workstreams
• Strong client-facing communication skills
• High agency and extreme ownership mentality
• Comfortable in intense startup environments
• Willing to work extended hours in-office
• Strong intellectual curiosity

Preferred

• Previous founder experience
• Technical degree from top-tier university
• Consulting / strategy experience (especially MBB)
• Experience in technical client-facing roles
• Full-stack engineering exposure
• Strong coding proficiency in any major language
• AI / ML infrastructure interest
• Project management in ambiguous environments
• Startup operating experience

Strong Signals

• Top-20 CS / technical program
• SWE internships at elite tech companies
• Prior startup founding experience
• Quant / technical rigor
• Proven ability to work under pressure
• Evidence of grind / exceptional drive
• Ownership of complex technical projects

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $110000 $150000
• Performance bonus: uncapped upside (potential $300K)
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Relocation support
• Visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates
• Direct exposure to frontier AI labs
• Significant ownership from day one
• Exceptional compensation upside

Why Join

This is a rare opportunity to work directly at the frontier of AI infrastructure.

Youll partner with the worlds leading AI labs shape mission-critical projects that influence next-generation model development and gain extraordinary exposure to technical operations at scale.

If youre highly ambitious technical client-facing and excited by intensity ownership and outsized upside this role offers exceptional career acceleration.