Tech Lead Manager, Product Engineering

This is an hybrid role based in Burlingame, CA with the team working together in person 2 days per week.

About Galileo

Galileo is the leading platform for Gen AI evaluation and observability, with a mission to democratize building safe, reliable and robust applications in the new era of AI powered software development. Our foundation is built on pioneering the early technology behind the world's most ubiquitous AI applications including Apple's Siri and Google Speech. We firmly believe that AI developers require meticulously crafted, research-driven tools to create trustworthy and high-quality generative AI applications that will revolutionize our work and lifestyle.

Galileo addresses the complexities inherent in implementing, evaluating, and monitoring GenAI applications, optimizing the development process for both individual developers and teams by offering a comprehensive platform that spans the full AI development lifecycle. Galileo bridges critical gaps, significantly enhancing developers' ability to refine and deploy reliable and precise GenAI applications.

Since its inception, Galileo has rapidly gained traction, serving Fortune 100 banks, Fortune 50 telecom companies, as well as AI teams at prominent organizations such as Reddit and Headspace Health, among dozens of others.

Galileo has AI research at its core, with the founders coming from Google and Uber where they solved challenging AI/ML problems in the Speech, Evaluation and ML Infra domains. It is now a Series B business backed by tier 1 investors including Battery Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, and Databricks Ventures, with $68M in total funding. We are headquartered in San Francisco with locations such as New York and Bangalore, India forming our areas of future growth.

Role Description
This role will lead a Team (or a Pod) and be responsible for the following:

• Technical Design and Architecture - you will champion for the right scalable, reliable architecture and obtain buy-in from all the stakeholders
• Sprint Planning and Execution - you will work closely with PMs, Designers, other TLs to plan and execute a highly agile process
• Hands on coding -  you will continue to operate at the lowest level of details and contribute at least 30% of your time coding.
• PR and Design Reviews - you will uphold the engineering excellence/quality bar
• Collaboration - you will collaborate closely with Product Managers, designers and other TLs to ensure we are building the right strategy and leveraging each other’s work.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building Data or AI/ML products or platforms

• Experience building large scale distributed systems
• Experience building APIs/Services in Python
• Experience building applications on Cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
• Some recent experience in AI based applications is preferable
• Engaged in all steps of the product development process, working cross-functionally with a product manager, designer, user researcher, and data scientist 
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional partners
• Some experience managing/leading teams of 5+ engineers (focusing on the technical planning and execution)
• High productivity and care to help teams collaborate more effectively and efficiently
• A startup mindset, biasing towards thoughtful action with minimal direction.

Why Galileo

• Join a seasoned founding team that has previously led product and engineering teams from 0 to $100M+ in revenue and from 0 to 1B+ users globally
• We obsess over our team’s culture driven by inclusivity, empathy and curiosity
• We invest in our team’s development and happiness because our employees are the keys to our success and ensuring happy customers – towards that end, we offer: 
• • Unlimited PTO 🌊
  • Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents – 100% pay for 8 weeks 🚼
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan 📈
  • Commuter Benefits 🚖
  • Mental and Physical Wellness 🧘
  • Company Paid Lunches 🌯
  • Headquarters Office in San Francisco 🌉 and a hub in New York 🌇
  • *Build the company with the Founders* 🧑‍💻