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title: 'Head of Engineering at Sierra Studio'
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# Head of Engineering at Sierra Studio

- **Company:** Sierra Studio
- **Location:** Brazil
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sierra-studio/5afc496b-db2b-4b7b-89ee-55094571b4eb

## Job description

🏔️ About Sierra Studio Sierra Studio is an innovative product development firm dedicated to empowering founders and business leaders in their quest to create impactful, meaningful products. Our team of experienced professionals is committed to delivering high-quality solutions that drive business growth. We prioritize a culture of good vibes, open communication, and continuous learning, providing our team members with the opportunities and resources they need to thrive. This role is with one of the teams we help build through our staffing partnerships. When you apply, Sierra manages the hiring process, but you'll be hired directly by and work within the client company.

🏢 About The Company Our hiring partner is building technology that helps create safer online experiences for millions of women. As an early-stage company, they move quickly, solve difficult technical problems, and build products that have real-world impact. They're looking for a Head of Engineering to lead their engineering organization through its next stage of growth, building both the technology and the team that will power the company's future.

🖼️ About The Role This is a permanent, full-time leadership position responsible for defining and executing the company's engineering strategy. As Head of Engineering, you'll oversee the engineering organization, establish technical direction, build and mentor high-performing teams, and partner closely with executive leadership to turn company priorities into scalable technical solutions. While this is a leadership role, they're looking for someone who remains technically engaged. You'll stay close to the architecture, review critical technical decisions, contribute to system design, and jump into the codebase when appropriate. At this stage, leadership and technical credibility go hand in hand.

🔨 What You'll Do

- Lead and grow the engineering organization, including hiring, mentoring, coaching, and performance management.
- Define and execute the engineering strategy in partnership with executive leadership.
- Establish engineering standards, development processes, and a culture of technical excellence.
- Provide architectural leadership across backend systems, infrastructure, internal tooling, and customer-facing products.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Leadership to align technical execution with business priorities.
- Own engineering planning, resource allocation, and delivery across multiple initiatives.
- Build scalable systems capable of supporting rapid user growth while maintaining reliability, security, and performance.
- Remain technically engaged through architecture reviews, code reviews, technical design discussions, and hands-on development when appropriate.
- Guide technical decision-making while balancing product velocity, long-term scalability, and operational excellence.
- Recruit and retain exceptional engineering talent while building an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture.

🤝 Who You Are

- You're an experienced engineering leader who enjoys building both technology and high-performing teams.
- You lead with technical credibility and believe engineering leaders should remain closely connected to the systems their teams build.
- You thrive in startup environments where ownership is high, priorities evolve quickly, and solutions often need to be created from first principles.
- You're comfortable making strategic technical decisions while balancing speed, quality, and long-term scalability.
- You communicate effectively with engineers, executives, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- You enjoy solving difficult technical challenges while empowering others to do their best work.

🔎 What We're Looking For Required:

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Previous experience leading engineering teams as a Head of Engineering, Engineering Director, Engineering Manager, or equivalent technical leadership role.
- Demonstrated experience hiring, mentoring, and scaling engineering organizations.
- Strong background in software architecture, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern web technologies.
- Experience delivering complex software products from concept through production.
- Strong understanding of engineering operations, development workflows, testing strategies, and system reliability.
- Fluent in English and Portuguese, both written and spoken.
- Working knowledge of fundamental U.S. laws and regulatory considerations affecting software products, including privacy, security, and compliance.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced startup environment with a high degree of ownership and autonomy.
- Familiarity with AI-powered products, machine learning systems, or data platforms.

Preferred:

- Experience leading engineering through periods of hypergrowth.
- Experience scaling products serving millions of users.
- Experience with AWS and MongoDB.
- Experience building globally distributed engineering teams.

Location: remote, based in Brazil. You would be working PT (Pacific Time) hours.

## About Sierra Studio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sierra Studio is an AI-first engineering studio and tech incubator that helps companies embed AI systems, tools, and talent to accelerate innovation while keeping people and culture at the center.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Partnership)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Tim Feess (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Engineering Services / AI Development
- **Target Customers**: Startups, Enterprise, and SMBs looking to become AI-first; US-based founders seeking development teams in Brazil
- **Mission/Purpose**: Build AI solutions that accelerate progress while strengthening the people and culture behind them; help companies move from AI experimentation to AI execution.

## Products & Services
- **AI System Building**: Custom AI-first systems tuned to client data, teams, and goals – moving beyond SaaS shortcuts to real transformation.
- **AI Team Training Programs**: Training for coding and knowledge work acceleration, helping teams adopt AI-first approaches.
- **Global Talent / Hiring Services**: Connecting US-based founders with remote development teams in Brazil.
- **Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Program**: A program for founders to lead client projects, explore new technologies, and incubate their own ventures within Sierra’s ecosystem.
- **Embedded Engineering**: AI engineers embed directly with client teams to accelerate roadmaps while protecting IP.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed (likely bootstrapped); headcount of 25 employees (as of mid-2025) with 78.6% yearly growth
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed
- **Growth Signals**: Strong LinkedIn follower growth (+10.8% yearly), website traffic growth (+136.8% yearly), active hiring for multiple roles (Lead AI Engineer, Lead Full Stack Engineer, EIR), and expansion of Brazil office.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first, human-first approach**: Combines technical excellence with a culture-centered methodology, ensuring solutions scale without losing team alignment.
- **Global talent pipeline**: Deep presence in Brazil allows access to high-quality engineering talent at competitive rates, while maintaining US-based leadership.
- **EIR program**: Unique incubator model that attracts entrepreneurial engineers and fosters internal venture creation.
- **Embedded model**: Unlike traditional outsourcing, engineers work side-by-side with client teams, preserving IP and cultural fit.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the AI-first engineering studio model across industries (Finance, Education, Insurance, Hiring, Construction, SaaS).
- Expanding the Brazil talent hub and deepening partnerships with US founders.
- Growing the EIR program to incubate more internal ventures.
- Continued emphasis on AI training and knowledge work acceleration for enterprise clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values curiosity, collaboration, and courage; described as “human-first” with a focus on impact and integrity.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote-first for Brazil-based roles; US roles likely flexible (HQ in Los Angeles). Offsites bring global team together.
- **Perks & Growth**: Opportunity to work on frontier AI projects with world-class founders; career growth in a fast-growing studio; active community events (e.g., live Q&A with CEO, Global Career Summit).
- **Engineering Culture**: Engineers build AI systems from scratch, use modern tooling, and are encouraged to explore new technologies. Emphasis on “building real systems that create momentum and scale.”

## Sources
1. [sierra.studio](https://sierra.studio/)
2. [sierra.studio/careers](https://sierra.studio/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/sierra-studio-ss](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sierra-studio-ss)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sierra-studio](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sierra-studio)
5. [sierra.studio/join-the-team](https://sierra.studio/join-the-team)

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