Engineering Manager

Machine intelligence will soon take over humanity’s role in knowledge-keeping and creation. What started in the mid-1990s as the gradual off-loading of knowledge and decision making to search engines will be rapidly replaced by vast neural networks - with all knowledge compressed into their artificial neurons. Unlike organic life, machine intelligence, built within silicon, needs protocols to coordinate and grow. And, like nature, these protocols should be open, permissionless, and neutral. Starting with compute hardware, the Gensyn protocol networks together the core resources required for machine intelligence to flourish alongside human intelligence.

The role

Hire, coordinate, and drive 1-2 high performance engineering team(s).

Responsibilities

• Drive a culture of high performance - mentor, incentivize, and manage engineers to deliver highly complex and uncertain deliverables against tight deadlines.
• Coordination - lead and unblock members of your team whilst working closely with the CTO and Technical Leads to scope and report on engineering deliverables and timelines.
• Hire and retain world class talent.
  
  

Competencies

Must have

• A track record of leading teams in scale/start-ups that went from ‘0 to 1’ and released their first products (as opposed to only maintaining existing products).
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and drive - particularly when under pressure.
• Experience attracting and closing world-class engineers.
• Hands on engineering experience in (at least) 1 of the following 3 domains:
  • Machine Learning
  • Compilers
  • Distributed Systems

Preferred

• Experience working cross-functionally with research teams.

Nice to have

• Rust programming knowledge.
• Meaningful exposure to cryptocurrencies.
• Founding experience.
• Open source contributions.

Compensation / Benefits

• Competitive salary + share of equity and token pool
• Fully remote work - we hire between the West Coast (PT) and Central Europe (CET) time zones
• Relocation Assistance - available for those that would like to relocate after being hired (anywhere from PST through CET time zones)
• 4x all expenses paid company retreats around the world, per year
• Whatever equipment you need
• Paid sick leave
• Private health, vision, and dental insurance - including spouse/dependents [🇺🇸 only]
  
  

Our Principles

Autonomy

• Don’t ask for permission - we have a constraint culture, not a permission culture
• Claim ownership of any work stream and set its goals/deadlines, rather than waiting to be assigned work or relying on job specs
• Push & pull context on your work rather than waiting for information from others and assuming people know what you’re doing

Focus

• Small team - misalignment and politics scale super-linearly with team size. Small protocol teams rival much larger traditional teams
• Thin protocol - build and design thinly
• Reject waste - guard the company’s time, rather than wasting it in meetings without clear purpose/focus, or bikeshedding

Reject mediocrity

• Give direct feedback to everyone immediately rather than avoiding unpopularity, expecting things to improve naturally, or trading short-term pain for extreme long-term pain
• Embrace an extreme learning rate rather than assuming limits to your ability/knowledge
• No quit - push to the final outcome, despite any barriers