Engineering Manager - Agentic AI

Overview

Hands-on Engineering Manager for an Agentic AI platform that helps product teams build reliable AI-powered workflows.

What you'll do

• Lead and develop the Agentic AI engineering team with goals, feedback, coaching, and performance management.
• Design, implement, and operate substantial areas of the shared Agentic AI platform.
• Shape platform technical direction, architecture, interfaces, and engineering quality standards.
• Translate recurring product/engineering needs into reusable platform capabilities without creating product-specific forks.
• Establish engineering practices for reliability, security, observability, evaluation, performance, and compatibility.
• Support platform adoption with product engineering teams to move from exploration to production.

What you'll need

• Strong production software engineering experience in Python, TypeScript, Java, or a similar language.
• Experience leading and developing engineers, including line management and coaching.
• Experience building a platform/API/shared service used by multiple teams.
• Experience designing/building production AI systems using large language models, tool use, or agentic workflows.
• A track record of taking early-stage ideas through evaluation to dependable production adoption.
• Collaboration experience across product engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and security in a global organization.

Details

• Location: flexible—remote, hybrid, or based at an Esko location; worldwide locations considered.