Position information

Type: Full time

Location: San Jose, CA / SF Bay Area, hybrid

• 2-3 days a week the team will work together at our locations in downtown San Jose and San Ramon. In person collaboration is key for this position.

Compensation: competitive salary, benefits, and equity

About Opsin

Backed by top tier venture capital, Opsin is a cutting edge GenAI security company. Opsin provides a comprehensive security orchestration layer that empowers organizations to build GenAI applications securely with their data.

• From a security perspective, Opsin includes enterprise-level security tools such as auditing and data lineage in GenAI models to meet security and compliance requirements from the outset. Our platform prevents sensitive data from being exposed or leaving the organization, safeguarding information at every step of the process.
• From a development perspective, our solution allows for the seamless integration of data from structured, unstructured, and CRM sources. This enables developers to create permission-aware GenAI applications that ensure only authorized users can access their permitted data.

Position

We are looking for a lead engineer to build the foundation of our product.

What you will do:

1. Building our products from 0 to 1
2. Work with our first customers and iterate on solutions
3. Work closely with the team to develop architecture and product features

Criteria:

1. At least 5+ years working on a core software team
2. Experience shipping software to production and owning it full lifecycle
3. Comfort leading a project and working through ambiguity
4. High proficiency designing services, data tiers, and APIs
5. (ideal) Experience building GenAI or ML applications
6. (desirable) Full stack skills
7. (desirable) Python ecosystem experience

We look for:

1. Collaborative
2. Strong opinion loosely held
3. Humble and always learning
4. Ability to prioritize and ship software quickly
5. Innate sense of simplicity and agility to avoid over-engineering
6. Interest in cybersecurity and AI
7. Desire to work in a startup environment on all parts of the company’s success.