Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

The role

You will lead a core engineering team of 7+ engineers as a hands-on technical and people leader. You will own the team's roadmap, technical direction, and execution while partnering with Product and Research teams.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Own the team's roadmap, decisions, and outcomes.
• Drive a high and predictable shipping cadence.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, design reviews, complex technical problems, and production incidents.
• Develop a deep understanding of team systems and technical tradeoffs.
• Partner with Product, Research, and other teams to set direction.
• Ensure systems scale ahead of the business while maintaining performance, reliability, and engineering quality.

Required qualifications

• Experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams, including coaching, performance management, and career growth.
• Strong technical depth and engineering judgment.
• Track record of leading teams to deliver complex technical projects in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Strong ownership and prioritization skills.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems with high demands on performance, reliability, and observability.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to align stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience building or scaling engineering teams through periods of rapid growth or organizational change.
• Background in machine learning, AI infrastructure, or generative models.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Attractive equity package
• Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family
• 9 weeks paternity leave
• 12 weeks maternity leave
• 401(k)
• Monthly commuter stipend
• Flexible PTO
• Daily lunch, dinner, and snacks
• Personal Yoshi

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is provided and assessed on a case-by-case basis.
• Cartesia participates in E-Verify and will provide Form I-9 information to confirm employment eligibility after hire.

About the company

Cartesia aims to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do. The founding team includes PhDs from the Stanford AI Lab who invented State Space Models.