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title: 'AI Engineering Tech Lead / Architect at Faros'
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# AI Engineering Tech Lead / Architect at Faros

- **Company:** Faros
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-02-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/faros-ai/19fa1cbf-2f8e-43df-9fef-d52fe12c0ee1

## Job description

## MISSION 🚀

At Faros, we are building the engineering intelligence platform for the AI era. We help engineering organizations understand the impact of AI on software delivery while providing the operational context that enables AI agents to operate with greater accuracy, relevance, and trust in complex enterprise environments. Our platform is used by some of the most sophisticated engineering teams in the world, ranging from fast-growing technology companies to F500 enterprises. We believe the future of software development will be built by humans and AI working together, and we're building the foundation that makes that possible.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

Join our AI team to build Lighthouse AI - the intelligence engine that helps engineering leaders understand organizational bottlenecks and improve performance in an age where AI is redefining the engineering craft. You'll work on natural language interfaces, causal analysis models, and ML-driven insights that impact how thousands of engineers work at companies like Autodesk, Discord, and Vimeo.

Beyond generating insights, you will help pioneer how AI agents operate safely and effectively inside complex enterprise engineering environments. This includes designing the operational context, evaluation frameworks, and feedback loops that allow agents to reason over real engineering workflows, measure the quality and impact of their actions, and continuously improve over time. You will work at the intersection of data infrastructure, AI systems, and engineering operations, helping define how humans and AI collaborate to build software together.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams to define, design, and integrate AI features seamlessly into the user experience.
- Build and maintain scalable ML pipelines and infrastructure balancing speed, flexibility, security, and scalability.
- Build and optimize LLM-powered features including natural language query generation, data summarization, and data exploration tools.
- Design and implement prompt engineering strategies, evaluation frameworks, and iterate on model performance.
- Fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) or custom architectures for performance, latency, and cost-efficiency.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest research (e.g., papers from NeurIPS, ICML) and identify opportunities to apply state-of-the-art techniques to business problems.

## WHAT WE VALUE

- Living by our values over avoiding conflict. We favor transparency and honest debate because strong decisions depend on saying the hard things out loud.
- Transformation over predictability. We dedicate our efforts to work that produces monumental outcomes for our customers, even if it means trading short-term predictability for long-term impact.
- Intensity over comfort. We move with urgency and focus, especially when the work is messy or unstructured.
- Craftsmanship over throughput. We take pride in how things are built. Quality, coherence, and care matter. We would rather ship fewer things done right than many things done carelessly.
- Ownership over process. We act like founders. If we see something broken, we fix it. We don’t wait for permission, committees, or perfect instructions. Process exists to help us move faster, not to give us an excuse to stand still.

## REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering with a focus on Machine Learning or AI.
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Strong familiarity with libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn.
- Prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks.
- LLM/GenAI: experience hardening and productionalizing applications based on GenAI.
- Experience designing/consuming REST/GraphQL APIs and deploying applications using containerization ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes).
- English C1: able to participate in technical calls and write clear communication.
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, related field, or equivalent real-world experience.

## PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with building & integrating with SaaS platforms.
- Experience with engineering analytics or developer-productivity tooling.
- Experience with development pipelines for ML and AI (e.g., MLflow, Weights & Biases, Evaluations, etc).
- Hands-on experience using coding agents (AI-assisted development).

## WORK DETAILS

Our team meets in-person several days a week in San Mateo, CA.

Full-Time – $210,000–$250,000 On Target Earnings Annually.

## About Faros

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Faros provides an AI-native engineering intelligence platform that gives leaders visibility into how work operates across code, people, and systems, enabling them to measure quality, productivity, and AI impact.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Vitaly Gordon (CEO), Shubha Nabar (Chief Scientist), Matthew Tovbin (CTO) – all former founding team of Salesforce Einstein

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Engineering Intelligence / Developer Productivity / AI Operations
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise engineering teams and leaders
- **Mission**: “To forge a world where engineering moves at the speed of ideas.” – The company advances those who build, by turning engineering data into actionable insights.

## Products & Services
- **Faros Platform**: An AI-powered knowledge graph that unifies engineering data (people, agents, processes, tools) to provide a single pane view of velocity, quality, goals, costs, and AI token spend. Features include DORA metrics, AI impact & ROI measurement, token intelligence, and context for AI agents. Integrates with any SDLC tool and AI agent in days.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$4.2M** (LinkedIn estimate) / Total Funding of **$36M**
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: SignalFire (led Seed round), Lobby Capital / David Hornik (led Series A); Partner mention: Microsoft Azure (case study)
- **Growth Signals**: 43 employees (+38.1% YoY headcount growth); 15 active job openings; customer wins include Vimeo; published “AI Engineering Report 2026” based on data from 22,000 developers across 4,000 teams

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team from Salesforce Einstein** – deep enterprise AI experience
- **AI-native architecture** – builds a knowledge graph of how teams build software, providing context that makes AI agents more effective
- **Complete vendor-agnostic integration** – works with any AI tool, SDLC, and workflow
- **Proven ROI** – customers report 40% fewer failed outcomes and higher PR velocity
- **Enterprise-grade security** and scalability handling thousands of engineers

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Transformation**: Helping organizations trial, scale, and optimize AI by measuring its impact on productivity, quality, and developer experience
- **Token Intelligence**: Tracing every AI dollar to shipped outcomes to justify investment
- **Initiative Acceleration**: Using AI-powered progress and capacity insights to keep commitments on track

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include Ownership, Intensity, Craftsmanship, and Transformational impact. The team acts like founders and optimizes for momentum and learning over comfort.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/remote-friendly; headquarters in San Mateo, CA with team members across the US, Argentina, Canada, and Switzerland.
- **Engineering Culture**: High-agency, data-driven, with a focus on building enterprise software that shapes how humans and AI collaborate. Opportunity to define the future of engineering operations.
- **Perks & Recognition**: LinkedIn employer rating **4.5/5** (2 reviews) with perfect scores for Work-Life, Culture, and Career. Active hiring across engineering, sales, product, and design.

## Sources
1. [faros.ai](https://www.faros.ai)
2. [faros.ai - Company](https://www.faros.ai/company)
3. [faros.ai - Careers](https://www.faros.ai/company/careers)
4. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/faros-ai)
5. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/faros)

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