Engineering Chief of Staff

Who We Are:

We build infrastructure that delivers massive amounts of web data to the companies training the world’s most powerful AI models.

We're the team that helps to power and support Grass, a bandwidth-sharing network that lets us operate a massive distributed crawler, giving us unique access to high-quality public web data at global scale. On top of that, we’ve built pipelines for ingesting, segmenting, and annotating billions of videos, transcripts, and audio files, powering dataset creation for frontier labs.

We’re lean, technical, and move fast. No red tape, no slow decision-making; just a team of builders pushing to expand what’s possible for open web data and AI.

The Role.

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Chief of Staff with a strong technical background to oversee operations and coordinate projects within our engineering organization. This role requires a highly organized individual with a deep engineering knowledge. You will join a small, dynamic team and lead efforts as the key liaison between the CTO and engineers. This is a unique title for a role, we didn’t know what to call it. Truth is, if you are the right candidate we can decide to call this role whatever you want. We are looking for someone who is technical, entrepreneurial, and wants to play a high visibility, key cross-functional role.

Who You Are.

• Acts with integrity and seeks out responsibility

• Demonstrates resilience, resourcefulness, and motivation for getting things done

• Organized and pays attention to details.

• Approaches challenges as opportunities

• Curious and eager to learn

• Welcomes feedback and open dialogue

• Values team success over personal recognition

• Process driven

What You'll Be Doing.

• Act as a bridge between management and engineers, ensuring clear communication.

• Provide technical guidance and support to project teams when needed.

• Troubleshooting engineering process issues, and optimizing the onboarding process for new team members.

• Owning and maintaining our developer documentation, ensuring clarity, comprehensiveness, and overall excellence.

• Being a thought partner for our product roadmap by collaborating with the CEO, CTO, and customers, bringing insights and highlighting developer needs.

• Contributing to newsletters, blog posts, and release notes to keep our audience informed about new features and product updates.

Skills, Requirements, and Qualifications.

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.

• Background as an engineer, or in a cross-functional technical role such as a technical product manager at an early-stage company.

• Experience in a customer-facing or stakeholder-facing role.

• Experience writing code, either professionally or as a hobby/side project.

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, security, and automation.

• Experience with Go, NextJS, ReactJS, JavaScript (ES6+), Chakra UI, RESTful APIs, Git.

• Experience with developing applications in Typescript/Javascript, Python, and/or Go.

• Bonus points for managing external-facing developer docs.

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.

• Strong product sense and ability to think critically about prioritization.

• Ability to manage and balance multiple tasks in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

• Self-motivated and autonomous, with a passion for problem-solving and continuous learning.

Why Work With Us:

• Opportunity. We are at the forefront of developing a web-scale crawler and knowledge graph that improves access to public web data and extends the value of AI to the people.

• Culture. We're a lean team with a high bar. We come to work not to be comfortable, but to find out what we're capable of and to do work that matters. We're not calling for people who keep things moving. We're calling for people who make everyone around them better.
  We prioritize low ego and high output. This is a fully remote team.

• Compensation. You’ll receive a competitive salary, benefits and equity package.