- Drive technical and operational excellence across the engineering function and broader org through culture, process, and systems
- Hire and retain an industry leading technical team to advance Transluce’s mission
- Build engineers’ and managers’ careers across the org
- Work with technical staff and leadership across Transluce to create strong clarity and alignment around goals, priorities, and roadmaps, at both the org-level and team-level
- Manage competing priorities and identify and explain trade-offs, advocating for what’s best for the organization
- Clearly communicate Transluce’s mission, strategy, and technical direction internally and externally; know how each new hire would come to the team and contribute to that vision
- Facilitate effective collaboration within and across teams
- Set vision and prioritization for core infrastructure; work with senior engineers to design the overall platform/technical stack
- Able to operate on a 12+ month time horizon for organizational design, technical strategy, and overall org theory of change
- Can hire and inspire senior engineers, researchers and managers by being someone they can learn and grow from
- Articulates and argues for a clear perspective, but is prepared to disagree and commit
- Past experience in a similar role: taking a small, fast-growing company from 20 to 40+ as a senior leader working with one or more layers of management below them
- Strong management skills with an ability to both directly line manage teams and mentor and lead managers
- Not afraid to get into the technical details where relevant, but also able to make good decisions without knowing every detail
Skills Required
- Experience in a similar role in a fast-growing company
- Strong management skills with experience in mentoring and leading teams
- Ability to operate on a long-term strategic vision
- Capable of making informed decisions at a technical level
What We Do
Transluce is an independent research lab that builds open, scalable technology for understanding AI systems and steering them in the public interest. Transluce means to shine light through something to reveal its structure. Today’s complex AI systems are difficult to understand—not even experts can reliably predict their behavior once deployed. Given AI's extraordinary consequences on society, we need scalable and open analyses of the capabilities and risks of AI systems. We are building open source, AI-driven tools to understand and analyze AI systems. We will apply these tools to open-weight models, so the world can vet our analyses and improve their reliability. Once our technology has been vetted, we will work with frontier AI labs and governments to ensure that internal assessments reach the same standards as our publicly vetted procedures. Email: [email protected]
