Manager, Software Engineering

Role overview Lead an engineering team building shared AI capabilities for an enterprise software platform. You’ll guide delivery and technical direction, partnering with product, architecture, and engineering leaders to turn AI opportunities into secure, reliable, production-ready features while supporting the growth of the team.

Responsibilities - Plan and lead engineering work, setting priorities and practices that support predictable, high-quality delivery. - Work with product and architecture partners to shape customer needs into scalable, secure solutions. - Guide technical decisions with senior engineers, including AI model selection and tradeoffs in answer quality, speed, scale, and cost. - Direct the development of prompt design and retrieval-augmented generation approaches for relevant, accurate AI experiences. - Balance new features with reliability, performance, operational needs, and cost; identify risks and communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders. - Coach engineers, build team capability, and establish quality and accountability standards.

Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related area, or equivalent practical experience. - Experience leading software engineering delivery and developing engineering talent. - Ability to guide architecture and implementation for scalable, secure, reliable software. - Familiarity with AI solution design, including model evaluation, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation. - Ability to assess technical risks and balance product goals with performance, reliability, and cost.

Nice to have - Background in legal technology, document management, or another regulated field. - Experience with document processing, retrieval systems, or shared AI platform services used by multiple products. - Experience evaluating AI vendors and model customization approaches, including fine-tuning. - Advanced degree in a related field.

Benefits and work setup The source lists health coverage with most premiums paid, an HSA contribution, a 4% retirement plan match with immediate vesting, flexible paid time off, paid holidays, wellness support, learning resources, and career development opportunities. Compensation is listed at $170,000–$190,000.