Vice President of Engineering, Aleph Alpha
Core Platform
+ Virtual Stock Option Plan
AI-powered research and application company
Open for applications
AI-powered research and application company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Virtual Stock Option Plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To research and build the foundational technology for an era of strong AI.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a senior engineering leader who has built developer platforms or ML platforms in complex, fast-moving environments
- Strong background in platform engineering, backend architecture, or ML infrastructure
- Experience scaling complex systems or developer platforms in a high-performance environment
- Ability to make pragmatic, high-leverage engineering decisions
- Proven leadership experience with cross-functional teams and senior technical ICs
- Comfortable joining during a phase of change, structuring ambiguity into a coherent plan
- Clear, calm communicator; able to collaborate with strong personalities
What the job involves
- As VP of Platform & Engineering, you will own the systems, infrastructure, and tooling that power model training, data pipelines, orchestration, and product integration
- Vision and delivery of Aleph Alpha’s engineering platform across training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
- Architecture of scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure spanning compute, data, and services
- Leadership of backend and platform engineering teams, with responsibility for mentoring, hiring, and structuring the next-generation org
- Close collaboration with Modeling, Embedded, and Product teams to ensure cohesive workflows and strong cross-functional execution
- Set engineering standards across reliability, observability, documentation, and operational excellence
- Drive clarity and structure during an evolving organizational phase
- Why This Role Matters: The Platform & Engineering group provides the backbone of all model development and deployment at Aleph Alpha. Your leadership will directly determine how fast the company can build, iterate, and deliver
Our take
AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030. Aleph Alpha is a company that researches, develops and “operationalises'' large AI systems toward generalisable AI. The company offers GPT-3-like text (an autoregressive language model using deep learning to produce human-like text), vision and strategy AI models.
Germany-based Aleph Alpha are the only European company pursuing this kind of work in AI-based technology for the public and private sectors. The company works with businesses to use its technology and filter it into a wide range of creative uses.
2023 funding heralded a new chapter of growth and innovation for Aleph Alpha. The infusion of capital fuelled the company's pursuit of groundbreaking research and advanced product development. With a focus on expanding academic partnerships and enhancing reproducibility, Aleph Alpha remains committed to its mission of driving technological progress.
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Insights
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2023
$125m
SERIES B
Nov 2023
$375m
GRANT
Total funding: $649.4m
Company benefits
- 30 Days of paid vacation
- Flexible working hours
- Join a dynamic start-up and a rapidly growing team
- Work with international industry and science experts
- Take on responsibility and shape our company and technology
- Regular team events
Company HQ
Bahnstadt, Heidelberg, Germany
Leadership
Jonas Andrulis
(Founder & Chairman of the Board)Previously worked as a manager at Deloitte, was Founder and CEO at Pallas Ludens GmbH, and worked as a Sr. AI R&D Eng. Manager at Apple.
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