Tech Lead Manager, Frontier Data Products - Multimodal
Leads a player-coach engineering team building reliable, scalable multimodal data products across image, video, audio, and document workflows. The role combines hands-on backend and distributed-systems architecture with team management, recruiting, and product delivery.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Set technical and product strategy for multimodal data products.
- Design systems covering image, video, audio, document, and mixed-media data from ingestion through processing, review, validation, versioning, and delivery.
- Build reusable abstractions across modalities while preserving modality-specific quality, performance, and customer requirements.
- Develop quality systems combining automated evaluation, model-assisted checks, expert review, sampling, and adjudication.
- Maintain traceability for outputs, including provenance, changes, evaluation, and acceptance decisions.
- Own reliability, performance, and cost for storage-heavy, compute-intensive, long-running workflows.
- Write production code, lead design reviews, and contribute to consequential technical work.
- Manage, coach, recruit, and onboard engineers; establish clear expectations, feedback, delegation, and ownership.
- Partner with product, ML, operations, and customer-facing teams to turn customer needs into reusable product capabilities.
Requirements
- Experience managing a strong engineering team while remaining hands-on technically.
- Deep experience designing and operating production backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems.
- Experience with large unstructured data, asynchronous processing, metadata and versioning, or compute-heavy workflows.
- Experience in at least one of multimedia infrastructure, computer-vision data, video or audio processing, ML platforms, annotation systems, or human-in-the-loop products.
- Strong judgment about platform boundaries and modality-specific versus generalized architecture.
- Track record taking ambiguous, zero-to-one products through architecture, launch, and sustained production operation.
- Ability to recruit, coach, and retain excellent engineers while maintaining a high performance bar.
Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over four years
- Up to $15,000 relocation bonus
- $10,000 housing bonus for employees living within 0.5 miles of the office
- $1,500 monthly meal stipend
- Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
Skills
Backend Systems, Distributed Systems, Data Engineering, Multimodal Data, Asynchronous Processing, Metadata, Versioning, Computer Vision, Video Processing, Audio Processing, Ml Platforms, Annotation Systems, Production Architecture, Quality Evaluation, Human-In-The-Loop
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