Senior Engineering Manager
$260,000–$310,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead a team of engineers while staying hands-on with coding, reviewing code, making architecture calls, and picking up meaningful work. Own product execution end-to-end, from scoping with customers through ship, measure, and iterate. Manage team growth by handling onboarding, feedback, and career development, while partnering with recruiting to build the team. Establish engineering best practices and set direction on how AI shows up in the product through agentic workflows and LLM-powered features. Work directly with systems and requirements engineers at hardware companies. Report to the head of engineering and collaborate closely with product, design, and forward-deployed engineers.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years developing production software, including designing, testing, and operating services at scale in a cloud environment
- 2+ years managing engineers, ideally at an early-stage company or somewhere with little existing process scaffolding
- Track record shipping software that enterprise customers depend on, with a clear understanding of what that changes about how you build
- Still hands on with coding
- Direct communicator who is able to give difficult feedback
- Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment where experiments and iteration are the norm
Desired Qualifications
- Background in aerospace, defense, automotive, or another regulated hardware domain
- Experience with requirements, ALM, PLM, or systems engineering tooling
- Experience managing teams building LLM-powered or agentic features in production
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