Founding Data & AI Observability Engineer

Founding Data & Observability Engineer

Unloq | Remote (India) | Full-Time Founding Role

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At Unloq, we partner with ambitious organisations to design, build and scale AI systems that deliver real results. Were growing fast, tackling frontier problems, and shipping deployments that matter.

Powered by our next-generation Strategic Intelligence decision layer, we deploy governed AI decision engines inside enterprise VPCs. Not chatbots. Not dashboards. Decision infrastructure.

Were now hiring a Founding Data & Observability Engineer to build the measurement backbone of our platform: the telemetry, data quality gates, and Impact Ledger that prove AI decisions actually deliver results.

The Role

Youll own everything that answers: Is the system making good decisions, and can we prove it?

• Instrumenting observability across AI decision workflows: model calls, retrieval, policy checks, approvals, outcomes
• Building the Impact Ledger expected impact at decision time vs. realised outcomes later, with evidence
• Data quality gates, telemetry pipelines, SLOs/SLIs, cost attribution per workflow
• Dashboards and audit trails legible to board-level decision-makers and compliance teams
• Traditional observability monitors infrastructure. This role monitors judgement quality.

Who This Is For

• 2-5 years in data engineering, data observability, or platform telemetry
• Production pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Spark, Kafka, or similar)
• Strong SQL and Python. You think in schemas and query patterns.
• PostgreSQL experience (pgvector a bonus). Kubernetes/Docker familiarity.
• Exposure to or strong curiosity about AI/LLM observability

Dealbreakers: cant distinguish between the system is running and the system is returning good answers. Needs a spec for everything.

This is a founding role where you define the spec.

Role Basics

Role: Founding Data & Observability Engineer

Type: Full-time founding role

Location: Remote (India)

Reporting to: Co-Founder / CTO and Principal AI Architect

Compensation: Competitive (INR) + equity + performance-linked increases

Start: ASAP

Why Join Unloq?

• Founding team. Youre building the measurement layer from scratch, not maintaining someone elses Grafana dashboards.
• Direct founder access. Small team, big problems, zero bureaucracy.
• Work alongside a Principal AI Architect and a small, world leading engineering team shipping enterprise deployments.
• Highly attractive equity options (ESOP)

Were building something that doesnt exist yet: the layer that makes AI trustworthy enough for the boardroom, not just the back office. Its early, its hard, and the right people find that exciting. If youd rather define the standard than follow one, this is your role.