• Help structure engineering workstreams and ensure projects move forward efficiently. • Identify risks, unblock engineers, and maintain steady development velocity. • Ensure high engineering standards while keeping teams focused on shipping. • Translate product direction and technical strategy into clear engineering execution. • Contribute to key architecture discussions and technical decisions. • Support engineers in evaluating system design choices and implementation trade-offs. • Ensure systems are implemented in a scalable and maintainable way. • Build and scale a strong engineering team across China, US and Europe. • Recruit high-quality engineers and help maintain a strong hiring bar. • Establish structured hiring processes and interview standards. • Work closely with product, research, and leadership teams. • Ensure alignment across different engineering efforts and locations. • Help resolve technical and organizational bottlenecks.

• Own and drive AI enablement engineering across Deepgram • Evaluate, prototype with, and select AI tools • Build reference implementations and workflows • Set and run company-wide AI adoption strategy • Partner with various teams to define guardrails

• Lead and grow your squads • Manage engineers across two squads through regular 1:1s, coaching, feedback, and active career development • Own hiring, onboarding, performance, and retention • Build a culture where engineers do their best work and feel supported in growing • Partner with Product and Design to translate roadmap into clear, executable plans • Own planning, capacity, estimation, and prioritization across your squads • Keep releases small, frequent, and well-tested, with tight feedback loops and minimal process overhead • Remove blockers, manage cross-squad dependencies, and surface risk and tradeoffs early • Partner with engineering leadership on technical roadmap and cross-squad alignment • Provide technical guidance and help your squads make sound architecture and design decisions • Hold a high bar for engineering quality, operational health, and craft • Champion modern, effective engineering practices, including AI-assisted development

• running a continuous weekly 1:1 practice, removing blockers, and mentoring a team of engineers • establishing career growth objectives and providing continuous, specific feedback for every engineer • reviewing code, design documents, tests, and CI/CD changes regularly • backing up the team in the trenches • driving architectural, tooling, and technical roadmap decisions • collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing teams • planning, managing, and allocating engineering capacity against quarterly OKRs • championing and improving Beyond’s engineering practices • contributing to new products and projects while supporting existing code base