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About the Role

You will be our first dedicated engineering leader, reporting to the CTO with a direct line to both founders. This is a hands-on operator role focused on managing engineers, building the hiring machine, setting standards, running compliance, and collaborating with SAP. The goal is to make the organization fast and efficient.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage and grow the engineering team, including building its management layer.
• Build the hiring machine: run hiring operations, design interview loops, and maintain a high hiring bar.
• Own engineering standards and velocity, including review, testing, shipping, and leveraging AI coding tools.
• Own the security and compliance program (SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001) to maintain lab speed.
• Own the engineering side of collaboration with SAP.
• Treat the deployment layer as a product surface, ensuring customer empathy in the engineering of managed APIs, VPCs, and self-hosted models.
• Act as a sparring partner to the founders on organizational design and engineering direction.

Requirements

• Directly led an engineering organization of 10+ people, including through managers or leads.
• Owned platform or infrastructure scope at scale, including serving, APIs, availability, and cloud/vendor budgets.
• Operated under SOC 2 / ISO-style audit regimes.
• Worked in both startups and large organizations.
• Can create structure from scratch and hold your own with a very large partner.

Skills

• Building hiring machines
• Designing interview loops
• Setting engineering standards
• Leveraging AI coding tools
• Security and compliance program management (SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001)
• API management
• Infrastructure management
• Cloud and vendor budget management
• Organizational design
• Engineering direction

Location

• Berlin
• Freiburg
• New York
• Remote (with frequent travel)

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid
• Remote

Experience Level

• Leadership experience
• Experience scaling an engineering organization (e.g., 25 to 60+)
• Experience building a management layer
• Experience leading engineering through an acquisition
• Experience leading engineering in a research- or ML-heavy organization
• Experience changing team workflows with AI coding tools

About the Company

• Pioneered tabular foundation models with TabPFN v2, featured in Nature and widely downloaded.
• Models are used in production for applications like disease detection and train failure prevention.
• Small, highly selective team of 40+ with backgrounds from leading tech companies and research institutions.
• Led by experienced founders and advised by a Turing Award winner.
• Joined SAP as an independent frontier AI lab in July 2026, backed by over €1 billion over four years.
• Maintains the same team, mission, and open-weights models post-acquisition.
• Values high standards in work quality and collaboration.
• Operates with speed while ensuring quality.
• Teams are based in Berlin, Freiburg, and New York, with occasional remote possibilities.
• Regular company offsites for team building and celebration.

Equal Opportunity

• Welcome applications from all identities and walks of life.
• Provide equal opportunities regardless of gender, sexual orientation, origin, disability, or any other trait.
• Encourage applications even if not all 'boxes are checked'.