Engineering Manager (Distributed Computing Platform)

Location: Germany, United Kingdom, or the United States. Remote and hybrid options are listed; the hybrid policy requires 3 days in the office per week. US roles include New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and other approved US states.

Base pay: $265,000–$295,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global builds parametric design software for complex geometry problems in aerospace, defense, and industrial turbomachinery, including large-scale computational and AI-driven optimization workflows.

What you will do

• Build, hire, and lead a small senior engineering team responsible for workload orchestration.
• Own the architecture for headless hirify.global execution across workstations, on-premises HPC, and cloud environments.
• Design and deliver job definition, submission, monitoring, failure handling, and results collection pipelines.
• Lead integrations with HEEDS, ModelCenter, PhysicsX Flux, and cloud-native job services.
• Write production code, review pull requests, and make architectural decisions as a player-coach.
• Partner with Product, the CTO, and customer engineering and IT teams to deliver systems within real infrastructure and governance constraints.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• Experience building and shipping distributed systems or infrastructure software.
• Hands-on expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Deep understanding of job scheduling and compute-intensive workloads at scale.
• Experience shipping into customer-managed environments, including on-premises, hybrid, or air-gapped deployments.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, develop, and manage engineering teams and collaborate with Product and field engineering.

Nice to have

• Background in HPC, scientific computing, or engineering simulation, including Slurm, PBS, HEEDS, ModelCenter, or OpenMDAO.
• Experience supporting customers with ITAR/EAR obligations or strict IT governance.
• Familiarity with consumption-based pricing transitions.
• Comfort reading and reasoning about C++ codebases.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, senior team model with high individual leverage.
• Player-coach role with hands-on technical work, especially during the first year.
• Opportunity to build a product area and engineering team from scratch.
• Work across cloud, HPC, on-premises, and heterogeneous customer infrastructure.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Hiring process

• Applications include resume, location, US state of residence, and work visa sponsorship information.
• The process includes customer-facing and technical evaluation relevant to the role.