Engineering Lead, Groq

Growth & Monetization

$205.5-278.1k

React

Kubernetes

Looker

Kafka

Google Analytics

Terraform

Hubspot

Next.js

BigQuery

NetSuite

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

AI semiconductor chip manufacturer

Be an early applicant

AI semiconductor chip manufacturer

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingMachine Learning

Be an early applicant

$205.5-278.1k

React

Kubernetes

Looker

Kafka

Google Analytics

Terraform

Hubspot

Next.js

BigQuery

NetSuite

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingMachine Learning

Company mission

To increase developer velocity in machine learning by leading the way with simple, fast, innovative solutions.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

6+ years of software development experience
2+ years experience managing a team of engineers
Spent 75% of their time coding in the last 6 months
Experience being responsible for enterprise SLAs
Experience with Go, React, and Next.js
Experience with Stripe, Metered billing products like Lago, Accounting products like Netsuite
Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, PubSub/Kafka/Pulsar, and Stytch
Experience working with Hubspot, Google Analytics, Looker, and Bigquery
Experience driving growth initiatives for developer, saas or other cloud software products
Experience working with sales teams on delivering on enterprise deals
Strong ability to communicate with stakeholders and align engineering and marketing resources on the growth roadmap
Knowledge of the AI inference ecosystem and the important communities
Bias to Action: Make decisions and ship code. You shouldn’t like meetings
Self-Driven: See projects through end-to-end independently. You should have the desire to take a project from design all the way from idea to getting customer feedback
Attention to Detail. Focus on the nitpicks. Building with a high degree of craftsmanship and shipping great products is the way to have the most fun at work

What the job involves

Mission: Build the systems to attract and convert millions of developers into paid customers
Build and Scale Growth Engineering: Hire, mentor, and manage an engineering team to deliver on our growth and monetization initiatives
Bootstrap our Implementation: Write code. Initially while building out the team, you will need to deliver on the roadmap. Lead by example in delivering high-quality, scalable solutions
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with marketing, growth, and sales teams to align technical initiatives with broader business objectives. Ensure engineering efforts directly support user acquisition and revenue goals
Increase Fleetwide Utilization: Work closely with our inference team in designing solutions that increase our utilization, while maintaining fast TTFT
Build the Growth Experimentation Roadmap: Define, prioritize, and execute on the roadmap for growth experiments. Leverage data-driven insights to test and scale initiatives that improve engagement, conversions, and revenue
Billing Integration Testing: Design and implement robust testing practices to ensure the reliability and accuracy of mission-critical user onboarding and checkout flows. Minimize risks and maintain a seamless user experience across payment processes through to our accounting backend

Our take

Groq is an exciting semiconductor startup focused on creating advanced chips designed specifically for AI applications, particularly for AI inference, where models use trained data to deliver fast responses.

Groq aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance by focusing on speed and efficiency for AI deployment. While Nvidia's GPUs handle both training and running AI models, Groq's LPUs are optimized for inference tasks. With a recent $640M funding round, Groq plans to scale up and deploy over 100,000 LPUs by 2025.

To achieve this, the company has partnered with companies like Meta and Samsung, as well as sovereign entities like Saudi Aramco, showcasing the company's growth and potential. With its exciting technology, Groq is well-positioned to play a significant role in the AI chip market in the coming years.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-19% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (2.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Aug 2024

$640m

SERIES D

Jul 2024

$300m

SERIES D

Total funding: $1.3bn

Company HQ

Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA

Articles

Chip Startup Groq Backs Saudi AI Ambitions With Aramco Deal

AI chip start-up Groq’s value rises to $2.8bn as it takes on Nvidia

Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

AI chip start-up Groq raises $640m at $2.8bn valuation

Leadership

Jonathan Ross

(Founder & CEO)

Majored in Mathematics and Computer Science at NYU. Joined Google as a Software Engineer in 2011, and was promoted to Hardware Engineer in 2013. Co-founded Google's Tensor Processing Unit. Was also a Rapid Evaluator at Google X, and then founded Groq in 2016, acting as its CTO before becoming the CEO in 2018.

Salary benchmarks

We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.

Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.

Share this job

View 8 more jobs at Groq