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[Hiring] Director of Engineering @FirstPrinciples
Feb 28, 2025 - FirstPrinciples is hiring a remote Director of Engineering. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: Canada.
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Role Description
Our engineering team is expanding rapidly, and we are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead, scale, and drive innovation in our technical development. This role will be pivotal in ensuring our platform's scalability and integration of cutting-edge capabilities while fostering a strong engineering culture.
- Oversee the development of our AI-driven research platform, integrating advanced NLP, symbolic reasoning, theorem proving, and machine learning models into a cohesive system.
- Manage a growing team of engineers, ensuring we build high-performance, scalable, and secure software systems that can accelerate scientific research.
- Work closely with FirstPrinciples leadership to align engineering efforts with business and scientific objectives.
Key Responsibilities
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Technical Leadership & Architecture:
- Define and drive the technical vision and strategy for FirstPrinciples’ AI-powered research platform.
- Lead architecture design, ensuring a scalable and maintainable system that can support rapid growth.
- Oversee infrastructure, DevOps, and cloud-based solutions to optimize performance and reliability.
- Implement best practices in software development, CI/CD, and system security.
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Product & AI Development:
- Drive development of FirstPrinciples AI, an intelligence engine designed to synthesize scientific knowledge, generate hypotheses, and support groundbreaking discoveries across disciplines.
- Lead the integration of symbolic reasoning, theorem proving, NLP models, and research intelligence analytics into a scalable AI framework.
- Oversee the ingestion and analysis of complex scientific data to provide a comprehensive research intelligence platform.
- Collaborate with AI researchers and domain experts to implement self-learning AI models that identify emerging scientific trends, gaps in knowledge, and new potential theories.
- Build AI-driven tools that enhance literature analysis, automate peer review processes, and optimize research workflows.
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Team Leadership & Growth:
- Build and lead a world-class engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
- Scale the engineering team efficiently, hiring and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines.
- Define and oversee engineering processes, performance reviews, and team development plans.
- Establish clear objectives and key results (OKRs) to align engineering work with FirstPrinciples' mission.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Partner with leadership to define the long-term technical roadmap for FirstPrinciples AI, ensuring alignment with our mission of revolutionizing scientific discovery.
- Work closely with data scientists, AI researchers, and research institutions to develop AI-assisted hypothesis generation tools that integrate with real-world experimental data.
- Collaborate with the fundraising and business development teams to present FirstPrinciples AI's impact on research intelligence and scientific funding allocation.
- Engage with the broader scientific and AI communities, staying ahead of emerging trends in AI-driven research, theorem proving, and automated discovery frameworks.
- Support the integration of FirstPrinciples Research Intelligence, ensuring that funders, policymakers, and institutions gain real-time insights into research trends, funding opportunities, and global innovation patterns.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role.
- Proven track record of leading and scaling engineering teams in high-growth, technology-driven environments.
- Strong expertise in building AI-driven platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-based infrastructure.
- Experience working with machine learning models, data pipelines, and high-performance computing environments.
- Background in scientific computing, research tools, or AI for research is a strong plus.
- Demonstrated passion for physics and for making scientific knowledge accessible and impactful.
Application Process
Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume, a cover letter detailing their qualifications and vision for the role, and references. Please include "Director of Engineering" in the cover letter.
Join us at FirstPrinciples and be a part of a transformative journey where science drives progress and unlocks the potential of humanity.
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Software Development
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Salary
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Canada
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Feb 28, 2025
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