Senior Engineering Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager (AI): Leading a 20-person organization focused on advanced AI research and large-scale engineering within hirify.global’s Cortex AI Functions team, with an accent on inventing, publishing, and productionizing state-of-the-art AI technologies. Focus on guiding foundational research, shaping model architecture direction, and delivering production-ready AI systems at enterprise scale.

Location: Based in Warsaw, Poland, with an emphasis on the Warsaw/Poznań teams.

Company

hirify.global is a data cloud company redefining enterprise AI by unifying frontier research and large-scale engineering into a single cohesive platform.

What you will do

• Champion developer productivity and velocity, ensuring teams deliver high-impact AI capabilities.
• Directly manage and provide support, guidance, feedback, and career guidance to a talented team of Engineers, Researchers, and Managers.
• Recruit, interview, and hire exceptional talent to support the rapid expansion of the AI Functions.
• Partner closely with Researchers, Engineers, and Product Managers to define execution plans and coordinate resources.
• Build and scale an engineering and research organization with a strong execution mindset.
• Lead large, complicated projects and participate in the design and implementation of new features and products.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering management experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing other engineering managers and leaders.
• Successful track record in managing talented engineers and managers.
• Ability to align long-term business strategy with pragmatic technical and research investments.
• Understanding of Data Infrastructure systems and microservice architecture built on Public Cloud platforms.
• Formal software engineering background (CS degree) and prior experience with distributed systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Lead a 20-person organization blending advanced AI research with large-scale engineering.
• Own the end-to-end quality of AI Functions, from evaluating external models to developing new architectures.
• Work at the intersection of frontier research and planetary-scale engineering.
• Innovations such as Arctic-TILT and Arctic-Extract are shipping features powering AI Functions.
• Join a group with a proven track record of delivering state-of-the-art solutions.
• Be part of hirify.global’s core AI innovation hubs in Poland (Warsaw/Poznań teams).