Head of Engineering - Remote

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Head of Engineering

Full-Time | Remote | Light Travel (~5%)

About Our Client

Our client is an early-stage, pre-revenue startup building an audience-intelligence platform for the entertainment industry, applying data and machine learning to help predict and improve audience response to creative work across TV and film. Entertainment makes eight- and nine-figure bets on creative material with no systematic way to evaluate it. This is a chance to build that instrument from the inside out, alongside people who operate at the top of the industry. Founded by a small, fast-moving, highly capable team with deep entertainment and media expertise, the company has just closed its funding round and is actively building out its core technology, with early technical infrastructure already in place.

The Role

Our client is seeking a hands-on, full-time Head of Engineering to own the architecture and build the core instrument that will power the company's audience-intelligence platform from the ground up. This is the company's first full-time technical hire, reporting directly to the CEO, with the mandate to turn an early conceptual architecture into a working, scalable product.

In the first six months, this person will build a working prototype of the company's core instrument on top of an existing evaluation harness and show, under pre-registered conditions, that it outperforms the baseline that harness already measures. The founding team has established that baseline. Beating it is your mandate.

Key Responsibilities

l Own instrument architecture end-to-end and build systems designed to scale.

l Apply machine learning and data science to messy, unstructured, and often subjective human-preference data to identify meaningful behavioral patterns.

l Design data schemas and scoring frameworks for qualitative, variable inputs where clean structure doesn't already exist.

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