Senior Engineering Manager

The role

You will manage an engineering team and help them become better professionals through 1:1s, feedback, and performance management. You will also write and ship code while shaping product roadmaps and technical decisions.

What you will do

• Manage the team directly through 1:1s, feedback, performance, promotions, and exits
• Own software delivery and planning against a roadmap
• Remove friction and improve how the team uses AI tooling
• Write and ship code to stay hands-on with technical decisions
• Use coding agents in daily work
• Challenge architectural decisions and explain tradeoffs
• Manage the engineering response to escalations
• Help engineers with scoping, estimating, and decision making

Required qualifications

• Managed engineers for at least a couple of years
• Experience hiring and developing people
• Experience addressing underperformance and making difficult people decisions
• Strong engineering background with sound technical judgment
• Ability to reason about architecture and tradeoffs
• Still builds software and enjoys it
• Uses coding agents seriously
• Shipped at a startup
• Ability to make decisions with incomplete information
• Ability to give specific feedback and say what you think early

Nice to have

• experience with ML tooling, data platforms, or evaluation systems
• experience managing a distributed team
• frontend architecture depth

Before you apply

• Email michael@humansignal.com directly with examples of your best work

About the company

HumanSignal is a human data partner for companies building AI models and products. They design and create datasets and run an enterprise platform called Label Studio.