Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Core
Leading a software engineering team building and operating production systems at the intersection of AI and software engineering, focusing on reliability, AI-enabled capabilities, and operational excellence.
Role type
Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Reliability & AI)
Builds
Production software systems, AI-enabled features, and internal corporate platforms (CorpOS, ArsenalOS)
Domain
Defense technology, AI, Software Engineering, Reliability Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Software engineering leadership, Reliability engineering, AI-enabled system design, Distributed systems architecture, CI/CD, Observability, People management, Strategic roadmap planning, Incident response, AI coding assistants
Preferred skills
Site reliability engineering, AI operationalization, Release cadence optimization, Frontier AI tooling, Hyper growth startup environments, Enterprise systems (ERP/MES/CRM)
Technologies
Lattice OS, AI coding assistants, Agentic automation, MCP, Cloud infrastructure
Responsibilities
Lead software engineering team for AI/software intersection systems, Set and drive roadmap for features and reliability, Manage and develop engineers and tech leads, Partner with product and AI engineering stakeholders, Establish engineering norms for design, code, testing, and release, Drive reliability and operational excellence, Raise bar on AI application in engineering work, Contribute to cross-team engineering standards, Communicate strategy and execution to senior leadership
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management