Pointdigitalfinance
Engineering Manager
Palo Alto, CA. Posted a month ago
The role
You will lead a small, senior engineering team building AI-powered customer experience agents. You will define technical strategy, write code, and partner with Product, Ops, and CX to ship applied AI.
What you will do
- Define the AI technical strategy for CX.
- Own the technical roadmap for AI-powered customer experience agents.
- Write code, review PRs, prototype agent capabilities, and debug production issues.
- Partner with Product, CX, and Ops to implement AI agents.
- Establish success metrics for agent performance and prioritize the roadmap.
- Design reliable agent architectures including orchestration, tool use, and guardrails.
- Lead and grow a small, senior engineering team.
- Drive observability and reliability across the AI agent stack.
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- At least 2 years leading or managing engineering teams.
- Proven experience developing and shipping LLM-powered, conversational AI, or agentic systems.
- Track record of delivering customer-facing products end-to-end.
- Ability to partner with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Deep systems design expertise.
- Demonstrated technical leadership.
- Experience defining and driving technical strategy and roadmaps for AI-driven, agentic customer experiences.
- Ability to hire, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams.
- Experience managing and mentoring engineers and driving performance.
- Hands-on experience with LLM and agent development, including prompt engineering, RAG, tool usage, and orchestration frameworks.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with conversational AI infrastructure such as telephony, messaging APIs, or chat platforms at scale
- Experience with AI/ML evaluation and observability, including instrumentation for quality, drift detection, and continuous improvement
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Flexible spending accounts (Health Care FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA)
- Unlimited paid time off
- 10 company holidays
- Fully paid parental leave
- Meaningful equity
- 401K retirement plans
- Guaranteed life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Monthly stipends for internet, mobile plans, and wellness perks
- One-time home office reimbursement
- Company provided equipment including a MacBook and monitor
About the company
Point aims to make homeownership more valuable and accessible. The company is building a category defining company in home equity.