Head of Engineering, Bangalore Site Lead

REQUIREMENT: MUST BE LOCAL TO BENGALURU, INDIA

Galileo is the leading platform for Gen AI evaluation and observability, with a mission to democratize building safe, reliable and robust applications in the new era of AI powered software development. Our foundation is built on pioneering the early technology behind the worlds most ubiquitous AI applications including Apples Siri and Google Speech. We firmly believe that AI developers require meticulously crafted, research-driven tools to create trustworthy and high-quality generative AI applications that will revolutionize our work and lifestyle.

Galileo addresses the complexities inherent in implementing, evaluating, and monitoring GenAI applications, optimizing the development process for both individual developers and teams by offering a comprehensive platform that spans the full AI development lifecycle. Galileo bridges critical gaps, significantly enhancing developers ability to refine and deploy reliable and precise GenAI applications.

Since its inception, Galileo has rapidly gained traction, serving Fortune 100 banks, Fortune 50 telecom companies, as well as AI teams at prominent organizations such as Reddit and Headspace Health, among dozens of others.

Galileo has AI research at its core, with the founders coming from Google and Uber where they solved challenging AI/ML problems in the Speech, Evaluation and ML Infra domains. It is now a Series B business backed by tier 1 investors including Battery Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, and Databricks Ventures, with $68M in total funding. We are headquartered in San Francisco with locations such as New York and Bangalore, India forming our areas of future growth.

Main Responsibilities

Sr Engineering Manager

The ideal candidate has the following abilities.

• Has around

  5 plus years of experience as an Engineering Management Leader in the Software domain

  (ideally with experience spanning medium to large scale organizations and with early stage startups which exposes the candidate to different challenges)

• Is Hands-on

  - has the ability to get into the minute details of the design, architecture or the codebase and help guide engineers in areas where they face challenges.

• Breadth of Skills -

  has the ability to manage engineers that have different skillsets such as UI Engineering, DevOps, Backend Engineering, AI Engineering and Customer Engineering. This role would need to have previous exposure either as an engineer or as a manager spanning at least a majority of these functions.

AI first applications

What does this role involve

1. Liaison

   with the Product Managers and Eng Leadership in SF and NY to ensure strong communication, sharing context, surfacing challenges and driving delivery. Some amount of overlap with the Pacific timezone will be required.

2. Recruit

   engineers working with Agency (in India) or Galileo recruiters in the US.

3. Ensure

   that there is strong bonding and cohesiveness between all the team members as this will likely be a hybrid working environment

4. On-call/Support-

   this role will have to be available for some on-call and support needs in collaboration with the US based Platform and Product engineers.

5. Execution

   - focus on delivery and ensure that developer velocity is top of mind.

If you are passionate about applying your experience in the AI/ML field to an emerging and advancing field of Generative AI , this is a great opportunity for you. You will get to work on a groundbreaking product poised to revolutionize the way companies approach LLM Evaluations and build Reliability for complex Agentic Applications. Join our team at Galileo and help us build the future of Evaluations in Generative AI.

Why Galileo

• Join a seasoned founding team that has previously led product and engineering teams from 0 to $100M+ in revenue and from 0 to 1B+ users globally
• We obsess over our team s culture driven by inclusivity, empathy and curiosity
• We invest in our team s development and happiness because our employees are the keys to our success and ensuring happy customers - towards that end, we offer:
• • Unlimited PTO
  • Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents - 100% pay for 8 weeks
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Mental and Physical Wellness
  • Company Paid Lunches
  • Headquarters Office in San Francisco and a hub in New York
  • *Build the company with the Founders*