# Engineering Leader

**Company:** [The Voleon Group](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/voleon)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $264k – $287k/yr
**Skills:** AI Agents, RAG, Llm Applications, Workflow Orchestration, Data Pipelines, System Architecture, Observability, Security, Compliance, Deployment
**Posted:** 2026-05-28

> Rational Dynamics is seeking an Engineering Leader to lead a multidisciplinary team building agentic AI systems for enterprise environments. This role requires hands-on technical leadership, strong product judgment, and a founder-like ownership mindset to deliver reliable, customer-delighting AI solutions.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

* Lead, coach, and scale a high-performing team of engineers and scientists; initially as a line manager, with scope to manage managers as the organization grows.
* Own delivery of agentic AI systems from ambiguous customer need through prototype, production deployment, evaluation, and iteration.
* Stay technically hands-on through architecture reviews, build/buy decisions, agentic workflow design, eval strategy, and urgent customer-critical problem solving.
* Partner with the Director of Product, Director of UX, and customer-facing teams to translate customer workflows into clear technical roadmaps.
* Build operating mechanisms that help the team move fast without unnecessary process: crisp priorities, clear ownership, fast feedback loops, and disciplined execution.
* Raise the engineering bar for reliability, observability, security, compliance, and deployment quality in high-consequence enterprise environments.
* Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional technical talent; create a culture where engineers and scientists do their best work.
* Model RD’s tenets: continuously delight customers, remove bottlenecks, disagree and commit, take ownership of every problem, prototype rapidly, and stay at the leading edge.

## What we’re looking for

* Significant experience leading engineering teams that ship production software in complex, ambiguous environments.
* Demonstrated ability to manage strong technical ICs, including engineers and/or applied scientists.
* Hands-on experience building with modern AI systems, such as: agents, RAG, tool use, workflow orchestration, evaluations, LLM applications, or adjacent systems.
* Strong product and customer judgment: you can identify what customers truly need, not just what they initially ask for.
* Enterprise-grade engineering instincts, including security, data boundaries, observability, deployment, and operational reliability.
* Founder-like ownership: high agency, low ego, bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and willingness to take on whatever matters most.
* Clear communication and strong judgment under pressure; able to debate hard, align quickly, and execute.

## Preferred

* Experience at an early-stage startup or as an early technical leader scaling a product from 0→1 or 1→N.
* Experience managing managers or building the structure for a growing engineering organization.
* Experience with enterprise customers in regulated or high-consequence industries such as finance, healthcare, defense, or infrastructure.
* Experience leading teams that combine research, applied ML, infrastructure, and product engineering.
* Familiarity with customer-deployed systems, multi-cloud or customer-cloud environments, security reviews, and compliance requirements.

## Why this role matters

RD’s success depends on turning frontier AI capability into systems customers trust for their most important work. This role sits at the center of that effort: building the team, shaping the architecture, staying close to the code, and making sure customer value compounds into a durable platform.

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