Founding Data & AI Observability Engineer

Location: Bengaluru

Founding Data & Observability Engineer

Unloq® | Remote (India) | Full-Time Founding Role

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At Unloq, we partner with ambitious organisations to design, build and scale AI systems that deliver real results. We’re growing fast, tackling frontier problems, and shipping deployments that matter.

Powered by our next-generation Strategic Intelligence decision layer, we deploy governed AI decision engines inside enterprise VPCs. Not chatbots. Not dashboards. Decision infrastructure.

We’re now hiring a Founding Data & Observability Engineer to build the measurement backbone of our platform: the telemetry, data quality gates, and Impact Ledger that prove AI decisions actually deliver results.

The Role
You’ll own everything that answers: “Is the system making good decisions, and can we prove it?”
Instrumenting observability across AI decision workflows: model calls, retrieval, policy checks, approvals, outcomes
Building the Impact Ledger — expected impact at decision time vs. realised outcomes later, with evidence
Data quality gates, telemetry pipelines, SLOs/SLIs, cost attribution per workflow
Dashboards and audit trails legible to board-level decision-makers and compliance teams
Traditional observability monitors infrastructure. This role monitors judgement quality.

Who This Is For
2-5 years in data engineering, data observability, or platform telemetry
Production pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Spark, Kafka, or similar)
Strong SQL and Python. You think in schemas and query patterns.
Postgre

SQL experience (pgvector a bonus). Kubernetes/Docker familiarity.
Exposure to or strong curiosity about AI/LLM observability

Deal breakers: can’t distinguish between “the system is running” and “the system is returning good answers.” Needs a spec for everything.
This is a founding role where you define the spec.

Role Basics
∙Role:
Founding Data & Observability Engineer
∙Type:
Full-time founding role
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Location:

Remote (India)
∙Reporting to:
Co-Founder / CTO and Principal AI Architect
∙Compensation:
Competitive (INR) + equity + performance-linked increases
∙Start: ASAP

Why Join Unloq?
Founding team. You’re building the measurement layer from scratch, not maintaining someone else’s Grafana dashboards.
Direct founder access. Small team, big problems, zero bureaucracy.
Work alongside a Principal AI Architect and a small, world leading engineering team shipping enterprise deployments.
Highly attractive equity options (ESOP)

We’re building something that doesn’t exist yet: the layer that makes AI trustworthy enough for the boardroom, not just the back office. It’s early, it’s hard, and the right people find that exciting. If you’d rather define the standard than follow one, this is your role.