# Decision Engineering Team Lead, Business Operations

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Austin, TX, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $269k – $335k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, LLM APIs, OpenAI, Anthropic, mcp servers, agentic frameworks, Claude Code, Cursor, ai coding agents
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Lead a small team of AI Software Engineers (Decision Engineers) building and shipping AI-powered tools, agents, and shared infrastructure to augment Business Operations workflows at an AI compute infrastructure company. Hands-on coding in Go/Python/TS, full-stack web apps, LLM/agent frameworks required; 5+ years software engineering with leadership experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead a small team of Decision Engineers, setting technical direction and owning the bar for what ships
- Still build hands-on: personally ship the highest-leverage AI tools and agents for business operations workflows
- Own the team's delivery: identify the highest-impact AI augmentation opportunities across business operations workflows and turn them into shipped tools with measurable productivity gains
- Design and maintain shared AI infrastructure including AGENTS.md and SKILLS.md, and shared skills the wider organization builds on
- Grow the engineers on your team through review, direction, and hiring
- Partner with team and functional leadership to translate their goals into an AI tooling roadmap

## Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience including leading engineers or owning technical direction for a team
- Production-grade code in Go, Python, and TypeScript (and the ability to work in an arbitrary language, primarily driving AI coding tools)
- Strong full-stack development skills building web applications (React, Next.js, or similar frameworks)
- Hands-on experience building applications with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-weight models), creating and using MCP servers, and agentic frameworks
- Deep understanding of AI coding agent tools including Claude Code and Cursor, and the agent frameworks around them
- Proven ability to work autonomously and get a team (and their agents) to ship results with minimal direction and high impact
- Great product and design taste, and the judgment to balance rapid iteration with maintainable foundations others build on
- Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and drive adoption

## Nice-to-Haves
- Exposure to business operations, finance, or strategy-and-operations workflows
- Experience leading teams building internal operational tooling

## Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package (cash + equity)
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Generous PTO policy
- Commitment to pay equity and transparency

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