Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead one or more project teams, owning delivery end to end while staying close to the code. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with product, design, and clients to ship products.

What you will do

• Own the delivery of one or more client or internal projects, from scoping to shipping
• Mentor engineers, give feedback, and help them level up
• Architect solutions, review code, and jump in hands-on
• Help grow the team and interview future teammates
• Work directly with founders and stakeholders to turn ideas into production products

Required qualifications

• Experience leading project teams and owning delivery end to end
• Track record of mentoring and growing engineers
• Strong communication skills
• Experience turning vague asks into phased plans a team can execute
• Fluent communication in English, written and verbal
• Senior engineer who leads by example and stays close to the code
• Strong architecture and technical decision-making across a project's stack
• Ability to run and support multiple projects at the same time
• Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, and agentic patterns
• Python (e.g. FastAPI) or TypeScript experience
• Growth mindset
• Uses AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) to supercharge the team's workflow

Nice to have

• Experience building products with LLMs
• Curiosity about new developments in AI
• Experience partnering closely with product and design, and comfort shaping the "what" alongside the "how."
• Consulting or client-facing experience integrating new systems into enterprise-owned infrastructure
• Comfort working through customer IT, security review, and change-management processes to get things live

Benefits

• Support work-life balance

About the company

Sierra Studio is an AI engineering studio and startup incubator. They create products across all areas of software, from web and mobile apps to work at the forefront of AI and large language models.