UP.Labs · 23 hours ago
Head of Engineering
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
7+ years expUP.Labs is partnering with a leading freight and logistics company to innovate industrial operations through technology. The Engineering Leader will drive the technical design and delivery of new software products, manage teams, and mentor engineers while collaborating closely with corporate partners.
Responsibilities
Lead your venture engineering teams (2-4 teams of 5 engineers each) to address genuine, real-world business problems
Build, grow and operate successful startups, working alongside venture leadership, head of product, business/growth leader and corporate partners
Heavily use AI tools to accelerate speed and quality of software delivery
Contribute to building internal AI tools for acceleration and IP portfolio expansion
Ensure technical feasibility of all venture products
Identifying areas where frontier technology can be a differentiator or moat for our ventures
Create rapid proofs of concept, then scale into functional MVPs to turn concepts into tangible reality
Build using software best practices in testability, maintainability, security, and scalability
Be a player/coach, leading and mentoring your engineering teams, and not hesitating to get into the weeds when needed, oftentimes architecting solutions or writing code
Cross-pollinate learnings, best practice and insights between multiple ventures and labs to drive continuous improvement of Engineering at UP.Labs
Enjoy working in a diverse, fast-paced, collaborative, and transparent environment where all ideas and opinions are valued
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in engineering leadership developing technical teams
Experience and passion in building startup ventures
Strong interest in adoption of AI for 10x improvement of Engineering workflows
Familiarity and preference working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments such as startups and growth-phase tech companies. No red tape and results focused
Hands-on and end-to-end product build, development and delivery experience with a mix of customer interfaces (e.g web, mobile), languages and technologies
Experience working with or managing remote, distributed teams including full-time engineers and vendors/contractors
The ability to build scalable, high quality, distributed services
Experience working with agile, lean and Continuous Delivery approaches, such as scrum, Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc
Experience building cloud native software architectures
Strong experience in collaborating with Product teams to find effective solutions
Experience designing and maintaining effective agile development processes, quality assurance standards, and reliable delivery
Ability to effectively evaluate technical talent on each of your teams, and through technical interviews
Strong communication skills to explain technical vision and deeply technical concepts to a variety of multidisciplinary team members and stakeholders
An open, curious and humble mindset that builds on to our open, inclusive and collaborative environment
Preferred
Experience working with Data Science and Machine Learning Engineers to build frontier technology solutions
Domain expertise in trucking, freight, logistics
Benefits
Meaningful equity
Hybrid Work Environment: In-office from Monday-Thursday; remote on Fridays
Travel: 6+ weeks per year
Company
UP.Labs
UP.Labs is a first-of-its-kind venture lab unlocking the future of transportation and mobility.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
André Rabold
Head of Engineering & Venture CTO
Keith Rives
CTO, Stealth Retail Data Science Startup
Recent News
2026-01-11
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