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Neuroscale is building the AI recruiting operating system, one unified platform for your entire talent organization, from first touch to hired. Arbi eliminates fragmented workflows, integrates directly with your ATS, and orchestrates AI agents for sourcing, outreach, screening, and candidate intelligence end-to-end. By combining reasoning‑optimized AI models with deep workflow automation, Arbi helps talent teams win more top candidates with dramatically less friction.

We’re backed by leading operators and investors, including the NVIDIA Inception Program, the HPE Unleash AI Program, and an active DoD SBIR Phase II award and contract. These partnerships accelerate our technical roadmap and anchor us in a powerful ecosystem of customers and resources.

We’re growing quickly, and now hiring a Founding Engineering Lead who will set the technical foundation of our backend platform and play a central role in scaling Neuroscale’s engineering organization.

As our Founding Engineering Lead, you will work hand‑in‑hand with three other founding engineers and the founding team to define Neuroscale’s architecture, technical standards, and engineering culture from the ground up.

You will own major platform components, lead backend architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and directly shape the systems that power AI‑driven recruiting for thousands of users. You’ll still write code daily, but you’ll also operate as an early leader who influences product, roadmap, infrastructure, and long‑term scalability.

This is a high‑leverage, high‑impact role for an engineer who wants to grow into an Engineering Lead / Head of Engineering role as the company scales.

• Backend:
  Graph
  
  QL, NestJS (Type Script), Postgre
  
  SQL + pgvector, Redis, BullMQ, Kafka, Click House, Kubernetes
• Agents:
  OpenAI LLMs + open‑source models, P‑tuning, guardrails, evaluation, tool calls, and safety tooling
• AI/ML: fine tuning pipelines, embeddings, vector search, and retrieval systems
• Lead backend systems design and own key architectural decisions.
• Build high‑scale APIs, event‑driven systems, pipelines, and LLM orchestration layers.
• Design robust infrastructure, observability, CI/CD practices, and reliability standards.
• Define platform‑wide development patterns, best practices, and future‑proof architecture.
• Collaborate tightly with founders and other engineers to ensure velocity without sacrificing technical integrity.

• Build systems end‑to‑end: architecture → implementation → testing → rollout.
• Translate ambiguous problem statements into clear, actionable engineering plans.
• Drive engineering priorities and help shape the product roadmap.
• Build AI‑powered product features that directly solve real customer workflows.
• Partner with GTM, Product, and Customer teams to deeply understand and act on customer needs.
• Raise the bar on code quality, performance, scalability, and operational excellence.

• Mentor and level‑up the three other founding engineers.
• Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and system deep dives.
• Influence hiring, interview loops, and team structure as we scale.
• Help craft the engineering culture, one that values speed, craftsmanship, and ownership.
• Become a trusted technical leader across the company.

• You have led major projects or systems from scratch, ideally in production.
• Deep expertise in backend architecture, distributed systems, data modeling, and infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in Type Script, API design, and modern web system patterns.
• You have experience with large‑scale data pipelines and search clusters.
• Experience with (or excitement to learn quickly):
  OpenAI and open‑source LLMs, P‑tuning / PEFT, Guardrails / safety tooling, Retrieval / RAG / vector search.
• Model orchestration and evaluation pipelines.
• Experienced in fast‑paced startups where speed and quality are equally critical.
• You instinctively think about reliability, observability, and scalability early.
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