Head of Engineering
SandbarNew York City, NY
At a glance
- Location
- New York City, NY
- Workplace
- On-site
- Pay
- $230K – $300K
- Employment type
- Full time
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- No degree requirement stated
- Job family
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Director
- Posted by employer
- 27 February 2026
- Last verified open
- 24 October 2026
- Region and country
- NY, US
- Team
- Software
- Listed via
- Ashby
What the employer wrote
About Sandbar
Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to expand human thinking. Our team has built software, ML, hardware, and consumer products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Apple, Peloton, and Equinox.
Our first product is Stream, is private voice ring that extends your thinking. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, Wired, and Time's Best Inventions of the Year.
Join us in creating technology that extends human thinking.
About
As Head of Engineering, you’ll lead our software and machine learning teams in building a new interface that makes all of computing feel as simple as thinking. You’ll guide and grow our mobile, infrastructure, backend, and AI/ML teams and work closely alongside our product, hardware, and firmware teams. You’ll play a significant role in shipping our first product, Stream, as well as shaping our future product, technical, and team direction.
This role is perfect for an experienced engineering leader who cares deeply about team growth and culture, and who wants to build tools that augment individuals in an agentic world.
Responsibilities
- Lead our software and ML engineering teams across mobile, backend, infrastructure, and AI/ML
- Drive product delivery—balancing shipping, quality, and velocity
- Define engineering requirements and goals and facilitate sprints
- Provide architectural guidance, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineers
- Collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, and product to ship cohesive, full-stack products
- Shape technical and product direction—identifying where to invest and what to build next
Qualifications
- 8+ years in software engineering or machine learning with 3+ years leading engineering teams across multiple disciplines
- Experience shipping consumer-facing software / ML products
- Strong technical breadth across mobile, backend, and ML—able to go deep when needed and guide architecture across the stack
- Track record of building high-performing teams in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Passion for human-computer interaction
FTE Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental benefits
- Company-sponsored 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Early stage equity
Where this record came from
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