Technical Lead Manager in San Francisco - Imbue

Summary

We are looking for a technical leader who can lead a strong team of versatile engineers both through direct guidance and by example. You will provide guidance to team members on their technical projects, from pair programming and code reviews to empowering them to make higher-level decisions. As an IC as well as a leader and mentor, you will play a key role in determining Imbue's technical strategy.

• Code, a lot, as an IC to our technical roadmap.
• Mentor and pair program with other engineers to help them develop their practical skills.
• Perform code reviews and provide feedback so that other engineers can continually hone and improve their craft.
• Help establish best practices and standards in our codebase to improve the quality of Imbue's systems.

• Someone who loves to code. This is a hands‑on position and is not suitable for those who want to simply oversee projects.
• Knowledgeable and eager to keep up‑to‑date with best engineering practices.
• Passionate about people, mentorship, and teaching, with a primary responsibility of helping other engineers grow their technical skills.
• Very proficient with Python.
• Knowledgeable about machine learning. You don’t need to be a world‑famous published researcher, but you should be comfortable with training deep neural networks and much of the latest machine learning theory and practice.

• Work directly on creating software with human‑like intelligence.
• Generous compensation, equity, and benefits.
• $20K+ yearly budget for self‑improvement: coaching, courses, conferences, etc.
• Actively co‑create and participate in a positive, intentional team culture.
• Spend time learning, reading papers, and deeply understanding prior work.
• Frequent team events, dinners, off‑sites, and hanging out.

Imbue builds AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world. Imbue trains its own foundation models optimized for reasoning and prototype agents on top of these models. By using these agents extensively, they can gain insights into improving both the capabilities of the underlying models and the interaction design for agents.

Imbue aims to rekindle the dream of the personal computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.