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: $110,000 – $150,000 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 world’s 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

• 0–3 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: $110,000 – $150,000


• 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.

You’ll partner with the world’s leading AI labs, shape mission-critical projects that influence next-generation model development, and gain extraordinary exposure to technical operations at scale.

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