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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.