Strategic Projects Lead - Engineering

San Francisco, United States
Full-time

About the role

Key Responsibilities

Project and client management: Work with the world’s leading AI organizations to build next-generation data solutions that push the limits of model capability, while directly driving revenue.

Manage expert teams across domains: Lead and coordinate highly specialized contributors across fields like finance, software engineering, law, and more to create high-quality outputs at scale. Shape how AI systems are trained: Design dataset specifications that directly influence how frontier models are evaluated and improved. Your taste and judgement will shape what foundation models become.

Drive high-impact execution end-to-end: Own critical projects from idea to delivery. From scoping, executing, iterating, and shipping in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment, you will touch it all.

Gain top tier operational experience: Support the team across a range of operational initiatives that will directly contribute to the future of AfterQuery. You will work across multiple parts of the business in the same week, ranging from building, analyzing, coordinating, and executing where needed most.

About AfterQuery

Applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development.

Required skills

Python
MATLAB
Aspen Plus
COMSOL
Claude Code
Bioinformatics pipelines

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Job details

Salary

$150,000 - $225,000

Location

San Francisco, United States

Experience

3+ years

Company

NameAfterQuery
IndustryInfrastructure
Team Size30

Funding

Total raised

$34M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

Altos Ventures
Y Combinator
BoxGroup
TThe Raine Group

Founders

Danny Tang

Danny Tang

LinkedIn
Carlos Georgescu

Carlos Georgescu

LinkedIn
Spencer Mateega

Spencer Mateega

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.