Member of Technical Staff, TLM, Context Engineering
Hybrid (San Francisco, California)$230k - $275kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Tech Lead Manager role leading the Context team in San Francisco, owning context retrieval, integration, knowledge base, data synchronization, and memory management for Profound’s AI marketing platform. Hybrid role with half time on technical leadership/architecture and half on people management, hiring, and execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Context roadmap, partnering with the CTO, Head of Engineering, and product leadership on priorities
- Hire and develop a team of 4 to 8 engineers, including running interview loops, calibrating performance, and setting expectations clearly
- Drive technical decisions on hard problems: retrieval quality and how we measure it, graph and memory schemas that survive contact with real customer data, sync architectures that stay correct under partial failure, and an integration framework that makes the tenth connector cheaper to build than the first
- Own retrieval quality as a measurable product surface, with evals that catch regressions before customers do
- Ship code yourself on the highest-leverage parts of the system
- Be the engineering point of contact when a customer's integration breaks, their data goes stale, or an agent retrieves the wrong thing
- Represent Context in conversations with product, sales engineering, and the executive team when data access, freshness, or security commitments are on the line
- Partner closely with the teams building our agent products, who are your primary internal customers
Qualifications
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years managing or tech-leading a team
- Strong Python
- Rust is strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience building search or retrieval systems in production: embeddings, vector stores, hybrid search, reranking, and chunking strategies
- Experience integrating with third-party APIs at scale, including OAuth, token refresh, rate limits
- Experience with data synchronization and pipeline correctness: incremental sync, idempotency, backfills, and reconciliation
- Strong Postgres skills; ability to reason about indexes, query plans, multi-tenant data models, and migrations
- Experience hiring senior ICs and giving direct, useful feedback
- Comfortable being an IC contributor on the team you manage
- Nice to have: knowledge graphs/entity resolution at scale; memory/context management for LLM agents; MCP experience; high-volume event ingestion; B2B SaaS security reviews; evaluation harnesses for non-deterministic systems
Skills
Required:Backend engineeringPythonSearch/Retrieval systems
Nice to have:Rust
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Profound
Optimize Your Brand's Visibility in AI Search
Profound helps brands gain visibility in AI-generated answers, optimize their presence in LLM-based answer engines, and stay competitive in the zero-click world.
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