Elucidate AI (Stealth)| Head of Engineering | San Francisco, CA | Onsite preferred, can discuss remote
In a time of economic uncertainty, it’s critical that companies fire their limited bullets wisely. Yet, even in the best times, smart companies consistently focus on goals that are predictably bad (e.g. 1x levers instead of 100x levers). Why do companies pursue predictably bad goals? The root causes are that companies are complex, the world is uncertain, and current tools don’t do a great job helping leaders understand how the pieces fit together to generate growth. As a result, teams operate via a combination of heuristics and siloed local optimizations, all of which are subject to error and obfuscate what’s really important. This creates hundreds of billions of dollars in waste since goal quality is a multiplier on efforts.
Our technology helps reveal the right goals. We enable companies to simulate the future so they can find better unit economics, drive growth, and innovate more effectively.
Our small, high powered team is backed by the A-list investors behind Palantir, Addepar, Flexport, Oculus, and others.
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We're looking for
- You are an expert in at least one backend language like Go or Python.
- You are passionate about building beautiful frontend user experiences, and you are experienced with React, Angular, or Vue.
- You have experience with data engineering involving large data sets; Some experience with ML/ DS is also nice-to-have but not a must.
- You are product-focused and can be an active thought partner in solving user problems simply.
- You have recruited and managed world class outsourced and in-house eng teams.
- You (ideally) have some experience at the early stage or have been a founder and understand how to think through trade-offs between scrappiness and perfection.
- You (ideally) also have a track record scaling large applications so you understand engineering best practices and how to make smart technical decisions that prepare us for the future.
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Sound like you? email isaac at elucidateai.com
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