R&D TL - Agents Platform

Description Anecdotes is looking for an R&D Team Lead - Agents Platform to build and lead the team shaping the next generation of our AI capabilities. This is a unique opportunity to combine deep hands-on technical impact with people leadership, owning everything from agent architecture and quality to execution and team growth. You won’t just join a team - you’ll help build the agentic future of Anecdotes from the ground up. Our story Anecdotes are redefining enterprise GRC for the AI era. We are the only AI-native enterprise GRC platform, built on a foundation of complete, accurate, and structured data automatically collected from your systems - trusted by some of the largest enterprises in the world, including Fortune 500 companies and leading auditors. We’re looking for an R&D Team Lead - Agents Platform to lead the team building the next generation of AI products and infrastructure at Anecdotes. This is a hands-on leadership role for a highly technical person who loves building from scratch, thrives in ever changing environment, and knows how to turn rapidly evolving AI capabilities into reliable, production-grade products. What You'll Do • Lead & Grow the Team Lead a team of engineers, owning day-to-day execution, technical roadmap, performance, growth, and hiring. • Build Agentic Products Hands-On Design and build production-grade AI agents and agentic workflows that solve complex GRC problems at enterprise scale. • Shape the Product Partner closely with Product and other teams to understand customer problems and translate them into valuable AI capabilities. • Raise the Bar Establish strong engineering practices and standards while helping the team experiment, learn, and iterate quickly in a rapidly evolving space. • Lead by Example Write code, review designs and PRs, prototype new approaches, and dive into complex technical challenges alongside the team. Requirements • Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based products, AI agents, or agentic workflows in production - Must. • 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong backend and system-design fundamentals. • 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role, such as Team Lead or Tech Lead, in a fast-paced product environment. • BSc in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience. • Experience designing, evaluating, and improving non-deterministic / generative AI systems, including evaluation frameworks, observability, and quality measurement. • Experience with distributed systems, microservices, APIs, databases, and cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. • Strong product mindset and the ability to translate complex customer and business problems into technical solutions. • Excellent execution in fast-moving and rapidly changing environments - you bring clarity, make decisions, and help teams move quickly. • Experience mentoring and growing engineers while maintaining a high technical bar. Nice to Have: • Experience with agent orchestration frameworks, tool calling, RAG, retrieval systems, or multi-agent architectures. • Familiar with Python development. • Experience working with large-scale data processing or data-intensive systems. • Experience building new products or technical domains from scratch. Summary Anecdotes is looking for an R&D Team Lead - Agents Platform to build and lead the team shaping the next generation of our AI capabilities.