Founding Head of Engineering

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🕒 August 9

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $280k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Talent

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1995

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Legal • Marketing

Talent is a global people and technology solutions company founded in 1995 that provides recruitment, workforce solutions, and talent acquisition services to enterprises and governments. The company delivers permanent, contract and RPO hiring, contingent workforce management, and recruitment technology/tools, and partners with clients across industries to scale teams and manage transformation programs. Talent also publishes salary guides and offers candidate and client services to support growth and workforce planning.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the product's codebase, architecture, and roadmap • Lead engineering for the AI-native product and own technical direction end-to-end • Build and integrate LLM-based generation, agentic workflows, evaluations, and production infrastructure • Ship features from rough idea to users, deciding what to build, cut, or defer • Make decisions on model selection, evaluation frameworks, data and inference pipelines, observability, latency, cost, and quality • Build evaluation and observability layers for customer security, procurement, and legal review • Participate in weekly customer calls and translate customer feedback into product decisions • Recruit, interview, and hire the engineering team • Define and protect engineering culture, standards, review practices, failure handling, and shipping cadence • Mentor future hires and set standards for code quality, review, and shipping • Partner with product and leadership on strategy, prioritization, and customer feedback loops

🎯 Requirements

• Founding or first-few engineer experience at a venture-backed AI startup • Shipped agentic LLM systems to paying enterprise customers • Experience leading engineering teams at real scale while remaining hands-on • Experience making rewrite-versus-keep decisions on an in-flight codebase • Experience hiring and mentoring engineers • Experience intentionally establishing an engineering culture • Experience clearing a regulated procurement gate in production, such as security review, bias audit, or compliance certification • Full-stack capability across backend, frontend, and infrastructure • Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences • Experience with Python (nice to have) • Experience with Temporal or comparable workflow orchestration platforms (nice to have) • Production experience with Anthropic, OpenAI, or other major model providers, including migrations (nice to have) • Experience building trusted customer-facing evals (nice to have) • Experience shipping AI-native products in regulated industries (nice to have) • Open source contributions or technical writing in AI/ML (nice to have) • Cover letter including what you've built, what you're proud of, what you'd want to build, and 3–5 sentences on the hardest agentic-system call made in the last 12 months • Links to code, projects, or shipped work

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work from anywhere in Canada • Fair and transparent hiring process • Inclusive and accessible recruitment process • Accommodation available at any stage of recruitment