Head of AI
Who we are
Our mission at Sourcegraph is to make it so that everyone can code, not just ~0.1% of the population. Our code graph powers Cody, the most powerful and accurate code AI for writing, fixing, and maintaining code, as well as our Code Search product, helping devs explore their entire codebase and make large-scale migrations and security fixes. Weâre building software that builds software, and in doing so weâre making devs more productive and growing the population of coders by giving anybody access to the deep knowledge base of a senior engineer through Cody and all of the context it brings. Weâre preparing for a world with a lot more code than exists today, and that benefits us all.
Itâs an exciting time to join Sourcegraph. AI has taken over the world, and weâve spent the last 10 years building infrastructure thatâs integral to making AI generated code more powerful and accurate. Our customers include 4/5 FAANG companies, 4 of the top 10 banks, government organizations, Uber, Plaid, and many other companies building the software that pushes the world forward. Weâve raised $225M at a $2.625B valuation from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Redpoint, Craft and others. Weâre making ambitious bets on our future and weâre looking to hire exceptional people to join our team as we make Sourcegraph one of the biggest and most influential companies in the world.
Working hours
đ Given that we are an all-remote company and hire almost anywhere in the world, we donât have a particular time-zone preference for this role. However, you may need to be available for non-recurring urgent meetings outside of working hours.
Why this job is exciting
We are creating a machine learning team at Sourcegraph, aimed at creating the most powerful coding assistant in the world. Many companies are trying, but Sourcegraph has a unique advantage: Our rich code intelligence data and powerful code search platform. In the world of prompting LLMs, context is key, and Sourcegraphâs context is simply the best you can get: IDE-quality, global-scale, and served lightning fast. Our code intelligence, married with modern AI, is already providing a remarkable alpha code-assistant experience. You can help us unlock its full potential, delivering a product that accelerates development in a way we only see every 10-15 years.
To head up this effort, we are looking for a seasoned and deeply technical engineering leader, versed in programming language semantics, with a strong AI/ML background and familiarity with recent techniques, who can help us deliver the worldâs best coding assistant and ML-powered developer tooling, built on Sourcegraphâs mature, robust, and open code intelligence platform. And if you happen to have an entrepreneurial streak, youâre in luck: We have an enterprise distribution pipeline, so whatever you build can be deployed straight to enterprise customers with some of the largest codebases in the world, without all the go-to-market hassle youâd encounter in a startup.
đ Within one month, you willâŚ
Start building a trusting relationship with your direct reports and peers.
Come up to speed on the Sourcegraph product and platform, which are complex and mature.
Be set up for local development and familiar with the coding assistantâs basic architecture.
Ship a substantial new feature to end users.
đ Within three months, you willâŚ
Help make the Beta launch as solid as possible.
Finish hiring your world-class team.
Be up to speed and driving Sourcegraphâs AI strategy.
đ Within six months, you willâŚ
Have delivered a world-class coding assistant to a dozen big-name companies.
Meet regularly with customers and prospects, representing the company.
Have established a longer-term roadmap that keeps us aligned with expected advances in LLMs.
About you
You are a polyglot hacker in the AI/ML space who wants to build and lead a world-class team to push the boundaries of AI, with a particular focus on leveraging Sourcegraphâs code intelligence to leapfrog competitors.
First, you have a deep understanding of programming languages, and tools that manipulate code. This could have taken any number of forms; e.g.:
Youâve worked with grammars and parser generators, or Treesitter
Youâve worked with compilers and semantic analysis, e.g. type systems
Youâve written an interpreter, or worked on a virtual machine
Youâve done static analysis involving scanning source code for semantic information
It doesnât really matter how you know it, but itâs important that youâre familiar with the basic concepts of semantic representations of source code, and how theyâre produced and consumed by tooling.
Second, your AI background could look like a few different things:
Youâve worked on AI systems and have built ML at large tech companies
You have a deep ML background and have demonstrated an ability to be customer and company focused
You are hands-on and can build machine learning
You are a Prompt Engineer and can take models and figure out how to speak to it in a way that yields different results
You are an entrepreneurial engineer who can hack together prototypes quickly, get things out the door, and iterate
You are an LLM hacker or a thought leader in the LLM space and can craft a roadmap that takes advantage of the space, especially with code intelligence
Youâve worked in NLP or language models at a top-tier research lab
If youâve been anywhere in the field lately, you can probably pick up enough about LLM capabilities to be able to drive this space, as itâs all greenfield.
Finally, you shouldnât be a purist about languages. We may need to integrate the coding assistant into a wide variety of tooling contexts, each with its own programming language. You may find yourself writing in several programming languages along the journey, and hopefully you already know most of them a little anyway.
Level
đ This job is an M4. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.
Compensation
đ¸ We pay you an above-average salary because we want to hire the best people who are fully focused on helping Sourcegraph succeed, not worried about paying bills. You will have the flexibility to work and live anywhere in the world (unless specified otherwise in the job description), and weâll never take your location or current/past salary information into account when determining your compensation. As an open and transparent company that values equitable and competitive compensation for everyone, our compensation ranges are visible to every single Sourcegraph Teammate. To determine your salary, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources and target the high-end of the range, ensuring that weâre always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world.
đ° The target compensation for this role is $243,000 USD base.
đ In addition to our cash compensation, we offer equity (because when we succeed as a company, we want you to succeed, too) and generous perks & benefits.
Interview process [~5.5 hour total interview]
Below is the interview process you can expect for this role (you can read more about the types of interviews in our Handbook). It may look like a lot of steps, but rest assured that we move quickly and the steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if weâre the right fit for you⌠Interviewing is a two-way street, after all!
We expect the interview process to take ~5.5 hours in total.
đ Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you betterâŚ
[30m] Recruiter Screen with Grace Bohl
[45m] Technical Background with Beyang Liu
[30m] Hiring Manager Screen with Steve Yegge
đ§âđť Team Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the teamâŚ
[60m] Resume Deep Dive with Grace Bohl
[45m] Technical Deep Dive with Dominic Cooney and Julie Tibshirani
[60m] Peer Interview with Erika Rice Scherpelz and Chris Pine
[Async] Pairing Exercise with the team
đ Final Interview Stage - we move you to our final round, where you meet cross-functional partners and gain a better understanding of our business and values holisticallyâŚ
[30m] Values Interview
[30m] Leadership Interview with Quinn Slack
We check references and conduct your background check
Please note - you are welcome to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet, but didnât get to meet during the interview process.
Not sure if this is you?
We want a diverse, global team, with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great, but youâre not sure if you qualify, apply anyway! We carefully consider every application, and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.
Learn more about us
To create a product that serves the needs of all developers, we are building a diverse all-remote team that is distributed across the world. Sourcegraph is an equal opportunity workplace; we welcome people from all backgrounds and communities.
We provide competitive compensation and practical benefits to keep you happy and healthy so that you can do your best work.
Learn more about what it is like to work at Sourcegraph by reading our handbook.
We want to ensure Sourcegraph is an environment that suits your working style and empowers you to do your best work, so we are eager to answer any questions that you have about us at any point in the interview process.
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