Engineering Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (AI): Lead multiple pods of AI Platform Engineers building and shipping production-grade agentic AI workflows and automation systems with an accent on architecture decisions, reliability, quality standards, and predictable delivery. Focus on reviewing designs, unblocking complex integrations, enforcing engineering standards, driving hiring and performance management, and scaling the team.

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global helps SMBs hire their first AI employee via intelligent agentic workflows deployed on a proprietary platform.

What you will do

• Lead multiple Mason pods owning delivery outcomes including scope, milestones, quality, and on-time execution
• Translate ambiguous requests into clear plans, acceptance criteria, and execution strategies
• Set and enforce production-quality standards for AI builds covering testing, monitoring, documentation, and rollout plans
• Serve as technical escalation for complex issues in auth, integrations, data modeling, reliability, and failure recovery
• Drive prioritization, capacity planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, and leadership development
• Partner with stakeholders to manage tradeoffs, timelines, expectations, and client-facing escalations

Requirements

• Communicate clearly and fluently in English — written and verbal — to align technical and non-technical stakeholders
• 5+ years building production systems as software/automation engineer + 2+ years engineering management or tech-leadership (people management preferred)
• Managed multiple concurrent workstreams with shared standards and predictable delivery
• Deep comfort with integrations: APIs, webhooks, auth (OAuth/API keys), data stores (Postgres/Supabase)
• Strong reliability and quality mindset: idempotency, retries, testing, monitoring, observability
• Experience with applied AI: prompt iteration, eval harnesses, human-in-the-loop QA, LLM observability
• Real examples of coaching, feedback, performance management, and end-to-end hiring loops

Culture & Benefits

• Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with high ownership and accountability
• High-trust culture with clear communication of timelines and tradeoffs
• Focus on continuous improvement through incident/postmortem loops and strong engineering craft