Software Development Manager, AI Builder Tools

The role

You will lead a newly formed AI Builder Tools team of platform engineers. The role focuses on making engineers more productive through agentic tooling across the software development lifecycle.

What you will do

• Manage a team of platform engineers, driving delivery, quality, and innovation on our agentic SDLC platform.
• Partner with Engineering Leadership and Platform teams to scope, plan, and deliver infrastructure for autonomous coding agents.
• Lead, mentor, and grow developers in agent frameworks, developer tooling, and platform engineering.
• Set clear expectations, provide ongoing feedback, and support the team in achieving goals.
• Champion software development excellence including CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, observability, and agent orchestration.
• Provide visibility into team impact, progress, and risks to senior leadership.
• Collaborate with Recruiting and other Software Development Managers to hire, onboard, and scale the organization.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of Software Development management experience with proven success leading platform, DevEx, or infrastructure teams.
• Strong technical foundation in developer tooling, CI/CD, containerization, and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience in technical design, problem-solving, and project management.
• Passion for hiring, coaching, and developing diverse platform engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with LLM agent frameworks, MCP tooling, or agentic coding infrastructure
• Shipped an AI coding agent or contributed to a DevEx/platform initiative that measurably improved engineering throughput

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity

About the company

MaintainX is a mobile-first work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams. It became part of Autodesk in August 2026.