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Lead system design across pods: Own the architecture for Loop's highest-impact systems, resolve the hard cross-team tradeoffs, and make sure independent pods build toward one coherent platform rather than three overlapping ones.
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Drive new engineering initiatives: Take on the problems that arrive as a vague ambition, define the technical bet, prove it with a prototype, and hand a working foundation to a pod.
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Stay hands-on: Write code on the hardest parts. Lead by shipping, not by diagram.
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Build the engineering culture: Set the bar for design review, code review, testing, and operational discipline, and mentor senior engineers into people who set that bar themselves.
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Own hiring: Identify what roles the org needs and when, shape the interview loop, and run technical interviews for senior and staff hires.
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Work with stakeholders: Partner with product, GTM, and leadership to turn business direction into a technical roadmap, and tell them plainly what is expensive and what is not.
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8+ years building production systems, including several years as the technical owner of a platform used by multiple teams.
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Deep expertise in distributed system architecture. You can design across services, defend the tradeoffs, and see the failure mode two quarters ahead.
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A track record of leading design across multiple teams and pulling divergent efforts into a single architecture.
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Hands-on depth in AI agentic systems: model APIs, prompt orchestration, tool-calling, evaluation, and agentic data pipelines. You still write the code.
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Demonstrated influence on engineering culture and hiring: standards you set, loops you designed, engineers you grew.
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Product-first thinking and 0-to-1 experience. You work with product and business stakeholders across functions and geographies, and you judge your work by what customers get.