Engineering Manager, Assist (AI)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager, Assist (AI): Leading a team to build and scale a proactive AI assistant that surfaces helpful agents to users across various applications with an accent on training models, evaluating quality, and driving user impact. Focus on interpreting user contexts and delivering polished user-facing experiences across multiple surfaces.

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco

Salary: $298,000-$416,000/year (USD)

Company

hirify.global, now including Grammarly, is an AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock hirify.global potential, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of 8+ engineers, providing mentorship and fostering a high-performance engineering culture.
• Own the technical direction for proactive agent surfacing, understanding user context, and matching them with the right agent at the right time.
• Drive the development of models that interpret user activity across applications and match it with relevant agents.
• Build evaluation frameworks to measure model quality and user impact, iterating rapidly based on what works.
• Ship compelling user-facing products across our Chrome extension, native desktop application, and integrations with hirify.global Mail and Coda Docs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, ML research, and platform teams to deliver an end-to-end experience.

Requirements

• Has 3+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of 5+ engineers, with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent.
• Brings hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating ML models, with a strong intuition for model quality and data-driven iteration.
• Has shipped user-facing products at scale, with a deep appreciation for UX quality and a bias toward getting value in front of users quickly.
• Demonstrates strong technical breadth across browser/extension development, ML/AI infrastructure, and full-stack product engineering.
• Has experience building systems that operate across diverse surfaces (browser extensions, native apps, web applications) and understands the unique challenges of each.
• Shows a track record of managing ambiguity - defining strategy, making tradeoffs, and shipping in fast-moving, early-stage product areas.

Culture & Benefits

• Dynamic hybrid working model based in San Francisco.
• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits).
• Disability and life insurance options.
• 401(k) and RRSP matching.
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time.
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more).