Founding Head of Engineering

About Ama

Every infrastructure project has to clear environmental compliance before it breaks ground. That work still runs on pen, paper, and billable hours. It is a major blocker for the physical world buildout.

Ama orchestrates agents to complete physical world compliance end-to-end. We work directly with infrastructure leaders (hyperscalers, utilities, banks, federal agencies, etc.) to deliver compliance reports. Our agents do in minutes what typically takes the industry weeks or months.

Ama is venture-backed and, with roots in environmental restoration, inextricably committed to making a positive impact on society by building technology that helps us better understand the natural world.

About the Role

As our Head of Engineering, you'll own the product and the agent harness behind every Ama report: the orchestration, tools, and checks that turn raw source documents into a verified compliance report, and the product our team runs it through. You'll work directly with the Founder, our Agentic Compliance Engineers, and clients. You'll own the roadmap and master, and build the engineering team under you.

What You'll Do

• Build the harness: Agent orchestration, tool design, context management, and agent swarms that run a report end to end.

• Prove every claim: Grounding, citations, evals, and regression tests that tie each statement to its source.

• Own the product: Lead product design from user and client feedback. Own code review, merges, and releases.

• Scale throughput: Job queues, parallelism, retries, and cost per report.

• Ingest anything: PDF parsing, OCR, table extraction, and scanned or handwritten records.

• Keep it running: Observability, tracing, and incident response for long-running agent jobs.

• Build the team: Hire and lead world-class engineers as we scale.

Who You Are

• In person in Brooklyn, NY.

• You want to work very hard on something that matters.

• You've built and run agents in production, not just demos.

• You have strong product instinct and have owned product end to end.

• You've built evals and can tell when a model is confidently wrong.

• You ship using coding agents and verify what they produce.

• You think in systems: queues, workers, databases, and where they break.

• You've reviewed and merged production code for a team.

• You weigh cost, latency, and UX as seriously as quality.

• You'll intellectually fall in love with environmental problem-solving.

• 6+ years of engineering experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a regulated field (legal, finance, insurance, healthcare)

• Experience building evals and increasing agentic throughput

• Early engineer at an AI-native company

• Forward-deployed/Product Management/Product Engineer experience

Benefits

• Meaningful early-stage equity

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) with company match

• Paid time off

• Open to H-1B sponsorship

Equal Opportunity

Ama is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered consistent with those laws, including the New York City Fair Chance Act.

Pursuant to New York Labor Law Section 194-b, the pay range for this position is listed in the job post. Final compensation is determined by skills, experience, and qualifications.

Compensation Range: $200K - $300K + meaningful early-stage equity + performance bonus