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Lead Engineer
Onfrontiers
Remote with Quarterly Onsites in BaltimoreHybrid8mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
About the role
- Lead the design and development of LLM-powered systems for expert matching and solicitation intelligence (OpenAI)
- Manage our growing vector-backed indexes of experts and solicitations, and the search algorithms that connect them (OpenSearch, PGVector, Go)
- Launch products that accelerate talent mobility by graphing knowledge at the individual work experience level
- Lead design and development of core SaaS platform and API features (Python, Go, React)
- Define architecture and set engineering best practices for a growing team
- Collaborate directly with product and leadership to ship features quickly and iteratively
- Balance “startup speed” with long-term needs like security, compliance, and scalability
- Mentor future hires and help shape the engineering organization.
- Experience developing with LLMs, LLM orchestration, vector search, and/or AI-first product development
- Proven experience shipping software in Python, React, and AWS environments
- Startup experience — able to thrive with ambiguity, iterate quickly, and wear many hats
- Strong architectural skills, balancing near-term execution with long-term scalability
- Mission-driven, hungry, and eager to own outcomes
- Comfortable engaging on data security/compliance topics (CMMC/FedRAMP/SOC2 familiarity a plus, not required)
- Impact – Your work will directly shape how $100B+ in government contracting decisions get made
- Equity upside – Meaningful ownership stake
- Growth path – Early opportunity to step into a leadership role as we expand the team
- Mission – Build AI-first technology that modernizes how government and industry collaborate
Perks & benefits
- Equity Compensation
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