<h3>Company</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">A1 is building a proactive AI smart assistant for everyday users to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. The system must handle multi-step reasoning, interact with external tools, and remain reliable despite non-deterministic model behavior.</p><h3>Role</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are looking for a leader who can think clearly about systems, make strong technical decisions, and help build the engineering organisation from the ground up.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Be part of founding team to shape the technical direction of the company, while helping build a strong engineering team across the globe.</p><h3>What You'll Do</h3><h3>Technical Direction</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define the long-term architecture for A1’s AI systems, infrastructure, and developer platform</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Evaluate trade-offs between speed of iteration and long-term system design</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ensure systems are designed for scalability, reliability, and long-term evolution</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Guide key decisions across model integration, data pipelines, distributed systems, and product architecture</p></li></ul><h3>Engineering Leadership</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work with engineers to translate product direction into clear technical execution</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help structure engineering workstreams and keep teams aligned on priorities</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Maintain high engineering standards while keeping the team focused on shipping</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Establish engineering culture, development practices, and technical standards across the company</p></li></ul><h3>Building the Team</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and scale a world-class engineering team across key talent hubs including China and US</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Identify strong technical leaders and help build a high-quality engineering organization</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define hiring standards and interview processes to maintain a high engineering bar</p></li></ul><h3>Coordination and Execution</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work closely with product, research, and leadership teams</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ensure technical workstreams move forward smoothly across teams and locations</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help resolve cross-team technical and execution challenges</p></li></ul><h3><strong>What You Will Need</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong technical foundation in system archi