Head of Engineering, AI Platform

Overview

Head of Engineering for Starburst’s AI Platform (SAIL) in India, owning the agent platform from internal foundation to customer-facing capabilities.

What you'll do

• Own the agent platform roadmap from internal to customer-facing capabilities.
• Hire and grow a team of senior engineers in India.
• Make architecture decisions for the agent SDK, evaluation, guardrails, serving, and observability.
• Run the platform like a production product with on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Operate autonomously across time zones, coordinating when counterparts are offline.
• Engage directly with enterprise customers when platform capabilities are on the line.
• Work with US-based product, agent, and research teams as peers to shape decisions.

What you'll need

• Have led an engineering team through a full cycle including hiring, shipping, and raising the bar (typically 10+ years of engineering and 3+ leading).
• Have built platform or infrastructure products serving multiple engineering teams with clear interface contracts and adoption details.
• Have run LLM systems in production and understand production vs demos and LLMOps considerations.
• Can explain adopted vs built components and what you waited on, in a fast-changing field.
• Be product curious and align architecture based on user goals and observed user needs.

Details

• Location: India.