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About the Role

We're looking for a Founding Engineering Manager to join a Series A AI infrastructure company at a pivotal moment. You'll work directly with the founders and a founding engineering team that came up through Google, Meta, Cruise, and AWS. This role is hands-on, keeping you close to the technical work, the people doing it, and the decisions shaping the team's growth. The primary focus is to protect and scale the existing high-retention, high-trust culture.

Responsibilities

Mentor and develop a high retention team of engineers, fostering an environment where strong people do their best work and stay.
Partner with founders on hiring, onboarding, and career development to scale the engineering organization.
Own planning and delivery across multiple initiatives, maintaining quality and system design standards without hindering team velocity.
Connect engineering efforts to product and customer needs, ensuring the team builds the right solutions.
Build lightweight and practical operating rhythms that support the team's productivity.
Contribute to architectural decisions and long-term platform investments to support scale and minimize technical debt.
Stay close to customer-facing engineers to understand real-world platform problems and ensure solutions address them.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience.
2+ years managing engineering teams in a startup or high-growth environment.
A track record of shipping complex technical work and developing engineers.
Strong technical judgment with the ability to engage deeply in architecture and system design.
Experience building engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, and craft over process.
Excellent written communication skills, comfortable in an async-first environment.
A customer-centric instinct and genuine interest in production platform performance.
Experience with AI-native products, developer tools, infrastructure platforms, or agent-based systems is a strong plus.
Background in developer tooling, APIs, or cloud infrastructure is a plus.
Experience in customer-facing engineering organizations is a plus.
Early engineering leadership at a startup (first or second management hire) is a plus.

Skills

Engineering Leadership
Team Scaling
Technical Execution
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Process & Ops
Technical Strategy
Customer Impact
Software Engineering
Team Management
System Design
Engineering Culture Building
Written Communication
Customer-Centricity
AI-native Products
Developer Tools
Infrastructure Platforms
Agent-based Systems
Developer Tooling
APIs
Cloud Infrastructure

Experience Level

5+ years of software engineering experience
2+ years managing engineering teams

About the Company

This venture-backed AI infrastructure company is developing the connectivity layer that enables AI platforms and B2B software to take meaningful action within business systems.
The founding team has experience from Google, Meta, and AWS.
The team is small with exceptional retention rates and high technical standards.
This is an opportunity to gain meaningful ownership and help shape the future of AI collaboration in business.