Upriver

Upriver is building the first Autonomous Data Engineer: an AI teammate that understands your data platform and automates data engineering workflows end-to-end. Founded by Talpiot alumni (the elite IDF R&D leadership program whose members went on to found Wiz and Check Point) and backed by leading data and AI investors, we recently closed our seed and are scaling fast. We’re looking for a strategic VP Product to define and lead Upriver’s product vision and execution from the ground up. What you'll do Product Vision & Strategy: Own Upriver’s product direction. Define and evolve the roadmap to build the category-defining Autonomous Data Engineer, working closely with the founders. Customer & Market Insight: Deeply understand data engineers, platform teams, and modern data stacks. Translate real-world pain into product opportunities. Execution & Delivery: Partner with engineering and design to ship high-impact features quickly, balancing speed with quality. Cross-functional Leadership: Work closely with founders, go-to-market, and customers to ensure tight feedback loops between product, sales, and user needs. Team Building: Hire and lead a world-class product team as the company scales. Requirements Proven experience leading product organization in a high-growth startup, ideally in data infrastructure, developer tools, or AI. Strong technical depth and intuition- comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding technical workflows. Track record of building and shipping complex, technical products from 0→1 and beyond. Customer-obsessed, with the ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear product direction. Entrepreneurial mindset- thrives in fast-moving, early-stage environments. On-site position in our TLV office

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to build the core of our platform. This is a high-ownership role in an early-stage company, working directly with the founders and some of the strongest engineering talent in the market. What You'll Do Build and own backend systems that power Upriver's AI agents and autonomous workflows. Work hands-on with cutting-edge agent architectures and applied AI, helping invent how these systems are built and used in production. Design scalable, reliable services for real customers, from data ingestion to orchestration and APIs. Deliver real customer value end-to-end: take features from idea to production, see them used by customers, and iterate based on real-world impact. What We're Looking For Strong backend engineering experience. Experience building production systems, and data-heavy services. Comfortable operating independently and taking full ownership. Product-minded, pragmatic, and excited about building from zero. Why Upriver Define a new category: Be part of a team figuring out how AI agents actually work inside real data platforms, and build a category leader product. High ownership, high trust: You'll make real architectural and product decisions early on. Top-tier team: Work with exceptional engineers at a very high bar. Join at the inflection point: Strong early traction, a fresh seed round, and the opportunity to grow rapidly with the company as it scales.

We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to build and define the research function at Upriver from zero. This is a rare opportunity to work on some of the hardest unsolved problems in applied AI and agents, with massive ownership, visibility, and room to grow into leadership quickly. What You'll Do Lead the AI domain at Upriver: Take ownership of our agent architecture and help define its next phases, standards, and direction. Solve hard, unsolved problems: Work on challenges in AI agents, reasoning over complex systems, and autonomous decision-making that don't yet have clear playbooks. Build production AI: Design, implement, evaluate, and deploy AI systems used by real customers. Be outward-facing: Publish technical blogs, benchmarks, and papers; represent Upriver in the AI and data community. Move fast with autonomy: Own problems end-to-end with minimal guidance, working directly with founders. Deliver real customer value end-to-end: take features from idea to production, see them used by customers, and iterate based on real-world impact. What We're Looking For Strong background in AI / ML (applied research, systems, or both). Experience building or experimenting with hands-on software development. Comfortable operating independently and making foundational technical decisions. Strong communication skills and interest in writing, publishing, and sharing work publicly. High ambition and desire to grow into a technical leadership role. Extra: Hands-on experience experimenting with large language models (LLMs). Why Upriver Define a new category: Be part of a team figuring out how AI agents actually work inside real data platforms, and build a category leader product. High ownership, high trust: You'll make real architectural and product decisions early on. Top-tier team: Work with exceptional engineers at a very high bar. Join at the inflection point: Strong early traction, a fresh seed round, and the opportunity to grow rapidly with the company as it scales.