Engineering Manager, Chalk
$200-300k
Offers Equity
Data platform for inference
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Data platform for inference
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-300k
Offers Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build data infrastructure to answer the world’s hardest questions.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years of technical leadership
- Previous experience at an early-stage startup
- Experience building production ML systems or data infrastructure
- Strong programming skills and systems thinking — you understand how things work under the hood
- Ability to lead technical teams
- Strong communicator who can bridge technical and business contexts
- Proven track record of delivering complex projects on time
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Desirable
- Experience with Rust or distributed systems
- Experience with query planners or compilers
- Experience implementing data infrastructure or PaaS-like software
- Experience scaling engineering teams in high-growth environments
What the job involves
- Working directly with our founders, you'll lead a team of exceptional engineers building our platform for real-time inference at scale. This role is a unique opportunity to shape technical architecture and engineering culture at a fast-growing, early-stage company
- You'll collaborate with brilliant folks, including Putnam and Advent of Code winners, former Jane Street quants, and Rust compiler contributors — all dedicated to bending the curve of what's possible in ML inference
- Lead a team of engineers building Chalk's data platform
- Partner with the founding team to define and execute our technical roadmap
- Establish engineering processes that enable high velocity without sacrificing quality
- Work directly with customers to understand requirements and ensure Chalk's platform solves real-world ML challenges
- Shape Chalk's engineering culture as we grow — you'll help us nurture top talent
Our take
The applications of AI and machine learning are undeniable and vast. However, much of its existing infrastructure was built to support large and lengthy jobs, opposed to the real-time decisions required for the technology to be useful to sectors such as fintech, eCommerce, healthcare and insurance.
This is where Chalk steps in, supplying backbone infrastructure to support real-time AI and ML applications. Its data platform includes features such as a compute engine, an LLM toolchain and integrated monitoring - with applications including anti-fraud, risk assessment and predictive maintenance. Importantly, any data source can be integrated with the platform, meaning the real-time decisions can be made with real-time data.
It's certainly an intriguing proposal, and one that has seen the company net over $60M in funding (and grabbing itself a $500M valuation). It's most recent investment will be used to accelerate development of its platform, onboard new customers, and grow its engineering and go-to-market hubs in San Francisco and New York. Putting the company in a very tasty position for future success.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2025
$50m
SERIES A
Dec 2023
$10m
SEED
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Expert healthcare guidance and live one-on-one support
- 401(k) retirement savings
- Generous holiday schedule
- Generous PTO annually
- Daily lunch and dinner on us
- Flex commuter benefits
- Grab a ride home on us
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Freed-Finnegan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Product Lead (Merchant Journey) at Stripe. Co-founded and was CEO of Index, which was acquired by Stripe. Worked at Google for 5 years, ultimately as Product Lead for Google Wallet.
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