Head of Engineering/ CTO

10 years

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About Us


Lemonpeel Private Limited is building the Creative OS for the AI-first world. Our mission is simple but hard: blend human creativity with machine intelligence - without compromising craft, control, or scale.


What You Will Do


As Head of Engineering / CTO, you will own Lemonpeel’s technical vision, execution, and culture end-to-end


  • Architect and scale a

    production-grade, multi-model AI orchestration platform

  • Build and ship

    applied AI systems, not research demos

  • Design, deploy, and maintain LLM-powered agents used in real customer workflows
  • Own system design across frontend canvas, backend orchestration, async pipelines, and GPU workloads
  • Lead integration and deployment of models via Fal, Replicate, Runware, and custom inference stacks
  • Work hands-on with LLMs from Hugging Face, including inference, fine-tuning, and LoRA-based training
  • Build robust agent pipelines (tool-calling, memory, routing, retries, observability)
  • Make hard trade-offs between

    latency, cost, reliability, and output quality

  • Partner closely with founders on

    product decisions, infra costs, and long-term architecture

  • Hire, mentor, and lead a small, elite engineering team

    as we scale


This is not a strategy-only role. You will code, deploy, debug, and scale systems yourself.


The Ideal Candidate


maverick problem-solver,


You likely have:


  • 10+ years of engineering experience

    , ideally across startups or zero-to-one products
  • Strong background in

    Applied AI

    (shipping AI systems used by real users)
  • Experience building

    production-grade AI agents

    (LLMs + tools + workflows)
  • Hands-on experience with Hugging Face models, LoRA fine-tuning, or custom inference
  • Deep understanding of

    AI infra platforms

    like Fal, Replicate, Runware (or equivalents)
  • Comfort writing and owning

    production-quality code

    (non-negotiable)
  • Solid grasp of

    distributed systems, async processing, queues, GPUs, and cloud infra

  • Experience designing systems that don’t fall apart under scale
  • Clear written and verbal communication in English
  • A bias toward ownership, clarity, and execution over buzzwords
  • FAANG experience is a strong plus, but not a requirement. We care more about what you’ve built than where you’ve worked.



Why Join Us


  • True ownership

    : You’ll define the architecture, stack, and engineering culture
  • Real AI, real users

    : Production systems - not slides, wrappers, or experiments
  • Long-term upside

    : Meaningful equity in a company aiming to define a new category


Terms


  • Role

    : Head of Engineering / CTO
  • Type

    : Full-time (in-person) in Mumbai.
  • Compensation

    : Competitive cash + meaningful equity (no bar for the right candidate)
  • Growth

    : Clear path to long-term leadership as the company scales


If you’ve


Built real AI systems that survived production

Shipped agents people actually depend on

Wanted to architect something from first principles, not inherit legacy

We should talk.

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