Engineering Lead in United States

Salary range: $300k - $350k | Equity: 0.4% - 0.6% | In-Person: NYC About Datalab Datalab trains models that read documents reliably at scale. The world's most important information is trapped in PDFs, scans, and files that can't easily be parsed, and getting it out correctly matters. From frontier AI labs processing training data to Fortune 500s like Siemens extracting decades of engineering records, Datalab is where businesses turn to when extraction has to be right. We’re at an 8-figure run rate with a team of 7. Anthropic is a customer. And we have hundreds more across FAANG, frontier AI labs, healthcare, finance, government, and legal. Our tools, Chandra, Surya, Marker, and Lift, have 70,000+ GitHub stars and broad developer mindshare. We're backed by founding members of OpenAI, FAIR, and Hugging Face. Role Overview We're looking for an engineering lead to guide our team while staying hands-on in the code. You'll set the technical direction and standards for how we build the interfaces, tools, and infrastructure behind our OCR, extraction, and document-understanding systems. This includes everything from optimizing agent loops and interfaces to helping to speed up inference. This is a player-coach role. You'll manage and grow a team of three engineers, own engineering delivery and quality, and spend a large share of your time writing code - focused on architecture, infrastructure, and the hard problems rather than routine feature work. You’ll partner closely with the research team to define the handoff between experimentation and production. As a small and fast-moving team, roles are fluid and ownership is high. You'll work directly with the founder to set priorities, ship features, and make our technology accessible to a global community of builders. Day to day, you will: Manage and grow a team of three engineers - 1:1s, prioritization, feedback, and hiring as we scale. Own engineering delivery, quality, and technical standards across code, testing, infrastructure, and deployment. Stay hands-on (~40–50% of your time), contributing architecture, infrastructure, and code review across our open-source repos, API, and internal tooling. Contribute to the research-to-production interface: set standards for turning research prototypes into reliable systems. Partner with the research team to align on what's ready to productionize and how. Help set engineering priorities and the roadmap alongside the founder. Ideal Candidate You've led a small engineering team while also shipping features. You're energized by both growing engineers and solving hard technical problems yourself, and you know how to set standards that people actually adopt. You operate with autonomy and can navigate the ambiguity of an early-stage team where the research and engineering boundary is still being drawn. We're eager to work with someone who has: 7+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers. A track record shipping and maintaining production systems serving high-volume traffic. Strong fullstack or backend depth, with the judgment to set architecture and technical standards. Experience building with LLMs and agentic workflows. Experience building in early-stage startup environments. Bonus points: Experience partnering closely with research or ML teams, or otherwise bridging research and production. Familiarity with document processing, computer vision, or OCR systems. Maintained or contributed to open-source projects with active communities. Interview process 30-minute video call to evaluate fit 1.5-hour in person meeting to build an architecture together Async code sharing + review phase (not a take-home project, you just share some code samples) Culture fit interviews with the team At this stage of the company, every interview is somewhat custom, so these phases may be rearranged slightly.

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity Postman is seeking an experienced AI Systems Reliability Engineer to help define, build, and maintain the infrastructure and processes that ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Postman’s AI-powered API and agentic systems in production. This role focuses on monitoring, availability, incident response, and automation to support AI services and tools trusted by millions of developers globally. What You’ll Do Develop and manage reliability metrics (SLOs) for AI-driven API services and agentic AI platform features Implement comprehensive observability and monitoring systems for real-time performance and fault detection Design and drive automated failover, recovery, and incident response strategies for high-availability AI infrastructure Optimize resource utilization, particularly GPU/accelerator efficiency, ensuring cost-effective AI system operation Collaborate closely with engineering, platform, and product teams to align reliability efforts with broader organizational goals Lead efforts to build internal tooling and automation focused on AI system stability and operational excellence Drive continuous improvement in deployment practices, monitoring approaches, and incident management processes About You Have a strong background in AI reliability engineering, SRE, or DevOps for distributed systems Understand the unique challenges of maintaining large-scale AI systems and integrating AI-specific metrics into reliability frameworks Are experienced with cloud platforms, monitoring tools, and incident response automation Are comfortable collaborating across teams to influence best practices for AI system reliability and operational health Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments focusing on delivering reliable, safe AI-powered services Bonus Skills and Experiences Hands-on experience with AI/ML infrastructure, including GPU/xPU optimization and scaling Familiarity with API platform operations and large-scale distributed services Prior experience building or operating observability tools tailored for AI and agentic systems Contribution to open-source projects or reliability engineering thought leadership The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $256,000 to $276,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. What Else? In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Along with that, our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves. At Postman we value in person collaboration. We are in office 5 days a week for all roles based out of our hubs in San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, New York City, Tokyo and London. For roles based in Bangalore, employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our in office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom. Our Values At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can. Equal opportunity Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.

About ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always. We have expanded from voice into three main platforms: ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you. How we work High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy. Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you. AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations. Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models. Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location. What we offer Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities. Learning & development : ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend. Social travel : We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose. Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy. Co-working : If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend. About the role Productions is the 'done for you' managed services wing of ElevenLabs made for creators and media businesses. We bring together our AI audio tools and human experts to unlock human-edited dubs, audiobooks, and more in 15+ languages directly on the ElevenLabs platform. Here are a few recent projects Productions has helped bring to life: Dubbing for some of the world's biggest creators (DudePerfect, Lex Fridman, Andrew Huberman), media businesses (Headspace) and broadcasters (Mediaset) Audiobook production for leading publishers and digital storytelling platforms Voice creation, sound design, and other audio engineering services for ElevenLabs' largest customers You can learn more about Productions here: https://elevenlabs.io/productions As an Audio Engineering Lead, you will: Lead a team of talented Audio Engineers Create, refine, and iterate on custom voices for ElevenLabs customer using different techniques Clean, edit, and prepare customer audio to ensure optimal cloning and generation quality Provide hands-on training and technical guidance on ElevenLabs tools and best practices Join customer calls, support creative direction, and act as a fractional audio engineer for their workflows Requirements 10+ years experience in audio engineering, sound design, mixing/mastering, or related fields Experience working directly with clients, creative teams, or technical stakeholders Strong proficiency with DAWs (e.g., Pro Tools, Reaper, Logic, Ableton) Deep intuition for voice characteristics, timbre, clarity, and performance nuance Ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into clear audio and voice-design solutions Location This role is remote and can be executed globally. If you prefer, you can work from our offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Warsaw. #LI-Remote We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.