Title: Head of Engineering
Reporting to: Ishaan (CEO & Co-Founder)
Business Need for the Hire:
- Build and scale the engineering organization as the company enters its next stage of growth.
- Own engineering execution, hiring, and day-to-day engineering operations.
- Lead hiring efforts with a goal of adding approximately 8 engineers by the end of the year.
- Allow the founders to spend more time on product and company strategy while establishing scalable engineering processes.
Wider Team and Where This Role Sits:
- Reports directly to Ishaan and works closely with the founders.
- Responsible for leading and growing the engineering organization.
- Oversees engineering hiring, technical execution, delivery, and engineering management across the business.
Essential Skills Required to Interview a Candidate:
- Previous experience as a Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, or Engineering Manager at a high-growth startup.
- Strong technical background with Rust or Python experience and the ability to lead highly technical Rust engineering teams.
- Experience building and scaling engineering organizations within startup environments (Seed-Series C preferred).
- Proven track record hiring and developing engineering teams.
- Strong technical leadership across distributed systems, infrastructure, APIs, or developer tooling.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments.
- Experience improving engineering processes while maintaining execution speed.
- Onsite in San Francisco.
Questions to Screen Candidates:
- Tell me about the largest engineering organization you've built or managed.
- How have you scaled engineering processes without slowing product velocity?
- How do you balance hiring, execution, and technical quality?
- Tell me about a difficult engineering leadership decision you had to make.
- Why does a company at LiteLLM's stage interest you?
Interview Process:
Introductory conversation with Ishaan. To be determined. Selling Points of the Role/Company:
- Gateway supporting 100+ LLMs through a single API.
- Trusted by enterprise customers including NASA, Adobe, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Netflix.
- Approximately $14M ARR and adding roughly $1M ARR month over month.
- Y Combinator company that has remained fully profitable after only raising a Seed round.
- Opportunity to build and scale the engineering organization during a period of hypergrowth.
- Work directly alongside the founders with significant ownership and influence.
- Small, scrappy engineering culture with meaningful technical challenges across AI infrastructure and developer tooling.
Location:
- San Francisco, CA
- 5 days/week onsite
Salary:
- TBD (Highly competitive base + meaningful equity)
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k)
- Equity package
Bonus:
- Performance bonus (if applicable)
Visa Sponsorship/Relocation:
- Relocation assistance available for exceptional candidates.
- Visa sponsorship TBD.
Ideal Start Date:
CV Feedback & Interview Feedback Agreed SLAs:
Additional Notes:
- Strong preference for candidates who have built engineering teams at startup companies (ideally Seed-Series C).
- Open to former founders, Directors of Engineering, or experienced engineering leaders ready to own an entire engineering organization.
- Candidates should be comfortable remaining hands-on while also building processes, mentoring engineers, and driving hiring.
