How to Hire Engineers in the Age of AI | Viraj Mehta (CTO @ TensorZero)

Viraj Mehta is CTO at TensorZero, an open-source LLMOps platform that unifies an LLM gateway, observability, evaluation, optimization, and experimentation. Before TensorZero. Viraj got his PhD in Robotics and Reinforcement Learning at Carnegie Mellon, worked at KKR, and B.S. and M.S. from Stanford. He's spent two years building his rocket-ship engineering team, OSS software in Rust, and being at the heart of AI innovatoin.

We discuss:
1. What to look for in engineering hires when coding is largely solved
2. How AI has increased the hiring bar and what you can do to meet it
3. Why you should build in Rust to make your code more secure and error free
4. Why open source is still an important business model
5. AI is still scaling... and there's still continued "juice to squeeze" to keep building in AI

Where to find Viraj Mehta:
• X: https://x.com/thebigmehtaphor
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virajrmehta/

Where to find TensorZero:
Website: https://tensorzero.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero
X: https://x.com/TensorZero

Where to find Michelle Hui:
• X: https://x.com/mhui1109
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-hui/

In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Introduction to Viraj Mehta
(01:24) Building Your Founding Team in the Age of AI
(03:40) How the hiring bar has increased for engineers
(06:00) How junior engineers should prepare
(08:55) Why Rust is so great
(12:22) Hiring a rust maintainer leveled up TensorZero
(15:19) Is open source still secure?
(17:40) How Rust makes TensorZero secure
(18:57) Tech debt in AI infrastructure
(20:41) Enterprises want model interoperability as leverage
(23:29) Scaling hypothesis 6 years later
(27:20) How AI moved so fast
(29:41) The hire every founder needs to make
(31:46) Prioritize cycle time to ship faster
(33:10) Coding sucks now: becoming agent babysitters
(35:24) Chess, Go, and Math in AI

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