Technical Senior Manager, Harness Engineering
Core
Build the 'harness' environment that steers AI coding agents to produce reliable, maintainable code at scale, shifting verification from human audit to system-enforced quality.
Role type
Senior IC Engineering Manager (AI Agent Infrastructure)
Builds
Production-grade AI agent harness components including feedforward guides, feedback sensors, guardrails, and verification loops.
Domain
AI Engineering / Software Development Lifecycle / Agent Orchestration
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
AI coding agent development, engineering tooling (linters, CI/CD, observability), spec-driven development, systems mindset, people management, responsible AI governance, security guardrails design, CI/CD pipelines, containerization.
Preferred skills
Experience with AGENTS.md conventions, fitness functions, developer-platform work, navigating organizational change from AI adoption.
Technologies
Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, LLM-as-judge reviewers, custom linters, architecture-fitness tests.
Responsibilities
Design and build harness components (guides, sensors, guardrails), govern responsible AI usage and quality gating, drive AI adoption and enablement, manage team performance and coaching, coordinate stakeholder collaboration, track engineering metrics (cost, velocity, defect rates).
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities