Senior Engineering Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience with managing and growing a team of software engineers, with experience in performance management and career development.

• 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

• Experience with software engineering in Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Machine Learning (ML).

• Experience with designing, implementing, and optimizing large-scale, high-performance, distributed search or quality systems in production environments.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in technology or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, or a related technical field.

• Experience with embedding-based retrieval (EBR), vector search, query understanding (qNLU), or large language models (LLMs) applied to search/recommendation systems.

• Experience managing system latency improvements and scalability enhancements.

• Good understanding of agentic architectures, tool-calling, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounding layers.

• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a proven ability to align cross-functional stakeholders and navigate competing priorities.