Engineering Manager, AI Applications

The role

You will lead a team of 6 engineers to take applied AI products from idea to production. You will build the product full-stack backbone for agentic financial workflows and the trust layer for agentic commerce.

What you will do

• Lead a team of 6 engineers, ranging from junior to staff
• Develop engineers through clear goal setting, coaching, and feedback
• Define and drive the long-term strategy and manage execution
• Prototype, review architecture and code, and dig into evals and agent behavior
• Talk to customers and run fast experiments
• Turn early bets into products that AI companies and fintechs adopt and scale

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience, including time as a Staff-level engineer before moving into management
• 1+ years of engineering management experience
• Strong product-mindedness and a deep understanding of customer and user needs
• Experience shipping full-stack products end to end
• A track record of building and growing high-performing engineering teams
• Ability to balance exploring possibilities with judging feasibility in 0-to-1 work
• Willing to go into our San Francisco office 3 days a week
• Genuine excitement about building applied AI products, especially in fintech

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products, such as agents, RAG, or evals
• Experience training or serving ML models in production
• Experience working with AI-native or developer platform customers and partners

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)

About the company

Plaid is a company working to become the financial data and insights backbone for AI applications and platforms. Their mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.