Manager, Software Development Engineer, Iris AI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead, develop, and retain a team of software engineers at Iris AI.

• Recruit, mentor, conduct one-on-one meetings, perform performance evaluations, and facilitate career advancement.

• Convert product and engineering roadmaps into actionable operational plans.

• Take ownership of team delivery, project scope, and priorities.

• Collaborate with engineering managers, Product, UX, Architecture, and platform teams.

• Oversee daily engineering operations while balancing feature delivery, system reliability, technical debt, LLM costs, and latency.

• Implement quality practices for non-deterministic systems, including evaluation harnesses, prompt and agent regression testing, and monitoring of production model behavior.

• Ensure AI features comply with security and privacy standards, covering tenant data isolation, defenses against prompt injection, tool misuse prevention, and responsible handling of customer audit data.

• Supervise code and design reviews focusing on performance, security, and maintainability.

• Manage infrastructure as code utilizing Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, on-call support, and incident response.

• Advocate for AI-first engineering practices and evaluate the impact of coding-agent utilization.

• Report directly to the Director of Engineering at Iris AI.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

• Over 2 years of direct management experience with software engineering teams.

• Strong hands-on engineering experience.

• More than 7 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying enterprise software products to production.

• Practical experience in launching products based on LLMs, including inference, structured outputs, RAG, tool invocation, or agents.

• Familiarity with Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Anthropic API, or similar technologies.

• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar.

• Knowledge of distributed systems, API design, microservices, and multi-tenant SaaS architecture.

• Experience with a leading cloud provider; Azure is preferred.

• Capability to translate roadmaps into executable plans, prioritize tasks, and manage resources to meet deadlines.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Must not require any form of U.S. work authorization at present or in the future, including F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, and J1.

• Subject to a thorough criminal background check, education verification, employment verification, and potential public social media review upon a conditional offer.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Performance-based bonuses or role-specific incentive programs.

• Healthcare coverage.

• Pension and retirement matching.

• Comprehensive life insurance.

• Employee assistance program.

• Paid time off plans.

• Paid company holidays.

• Opportunities for career advancement.

• Meaningful work.

• A culture that promotes innovation.