Varick Agents — Head of Engineering

• →6+ years of software engineering, including real-time experience leading engineers as a lead, manager, or founding engineer accountable for a team's output
• →Proven engineering leadership — built, grown, and mentored engineering teams and owned delivery across multiple teams or workstreams at once
• →Deep experience building and shipping AI agents in production — orchestration, tool use, retrieval, structured extraction, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop, not just prompt demos
• →Strong distributed-systems instincts — multi-tenant backend systems, data modeling, and enterprise integration (real APIs, OAuth, connectors, enterprise ERP and CRM software)
• →Comfortable owning infrastructure (Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, multi-cloud) and operating software across many deployments and versions — release management, staged rollout, rollback, monitoring, alerting, and on-call

• Forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering experience, talking directly to the people whose process is being automated
• Background in process mining, workflow automation, or enterprise process discovery
• Previous founding engineer or CTO experience at a venture-backed startup
• Experience operating in enterprise environments with real security, compliance, and reliability requirements (SOC 2, audit, on-call/incident response), or published research/open-source contributions in agents and applied AI

• Salary — $200,000–$300,000
• Equity — 0%–3%
• On-site policy — 5 days in-person, SF Financial District
• Visa sponsorship — None Available
• Employment type — Full-time
• Location — San Francisco, CA

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Contrario submission-form questions (Required Candidate Q&A): Basic Information, LinkedIn, Experience, Github, Current Company, Current Title, Logistics, Location, plus two explicit questions — "Do you need sponsorship now or in the future?" and "Are you open to relocating to the Bay Area?" The last two are role-specific submission questions to capture in outreach.

Stage names only in source; no durations or descriptions provided. Stage 1 — Pending Approval — Candidates awaiting initial approval. Stage 2 — Vibe Check Stage 3 — First Round Stage 4 — Second Round Stage 5 — On Site Stage 6 — Offer Stage 7 — Hired — Candidate accepts and starts.