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Software Engineering Lead

Crossing Hurdles
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/2/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/1/2026

Crossing Hurdles is a global recruitment firm partnering with leading US-based startups. We are hiring for a fast-growing startup building AI infrastructure that helps teams monitor, evaluate, and improve autonomous agents in production. Their platform tracks agent behavior, detects failures, and turns real-world data into insights to make AI systems more reliable and scalable.


Role Snapshot

  • Role: Tech Lead
  • Compensation: $300K - $450K Competitive equity
  • Location: San Francisco, California
  • YOE: 5 years of experience in fullstack or backend engineering at top tier companies


About The Clint

The company builds infrastructure for Agent Behaviour Monitoring (ABM), surfacing behavioural issues like instruction drift and context loss that traditional observability misses. Teams use it to understand how autonomous agents perform in production by clustering patterns across conversations and workflows, correlating regressions to interaction types, and pinpointing where reliability breaks down.


Why should you consider ?

  • Build core infrastructure that makes AI agents reliable by fixing hallucinations, drift, and production failures
  • Join a sub-20 elite team shipping at massive velocity
  • Get founding-level ownership by working directly with customers and shaping the roadmap
  • Top compensation plus full benefits, Equinox, and a private chef

Salary : $300,000 - $450,000

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