Description
We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Forward Intelligence organization spanning developer experience tooling, continuous evaluation infrastructure, and applied/field engineering.
You will manage technical leads and senior engineers across each pillar, set the cross-functional roadmap for how domain knowledge becomes production-grade AI skills, and own the organizational health, hiring, and career growth of a multi-pillar engineering team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage technical leads and senior engineers across the DevEx & Pipeline, AI Evaluation, and Applied Engineering pillars.
- Establish and enforce the engineering standards for skill authoring, prompt architecture, API integration, and schema compliance across the org.
- Ensure Evaluation-Driven Development , benchmark datasets, LLM-as-a-Judge scoring, trajectory trace analysis, CI/CD quality gates - is consistently applied across every pillar before skills reach production.
- Own the escalation path for production telemetry and drift analysis, ensuring trajectory failures and regressions are caught, triaged, and fed back into eval suites and authoring standards.
- Act as the primary point of contact for business-unit leaders and senior consultants on skill coverage, prioritization, and enablement, translating their needs into engineering commitments.
- Recruit, develop, and retain technical leads and senior engineers with a clear path for ICs to grow into leads as the org matures.
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience leading and developing software development engineering teams.
- 10+ years of total professional software engineering experience, providing enough technical depth to set direction and make credible calls across DevEx, evaluation, and field deployment disciplines.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; Master's degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.
- 1+ years of exposure to generative AI, LLM-based systems, or agentic architectures, sufficient to direct technical strategy without needing to be the deepest specialist in any one pillar.
Other Qualifications:
- Strong technical communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with non-technical domain experts and translate requirements into clean technical specs.
- Proven ability to build, structure, and grow a multi-pillar engineering org, including making or informing leveling decisions for Senior-level ICs.
- Track record partnering with business-unit leaders, senior consultants, and executive stakeholders to translate ambiguous business needs into a coherent engineering roadmap.
- Technical Breadth Across AI/Agentic Systems: Working fluency across developer tooling, CI/CD evaluation pipelines, and AI systems.
- Experience mentoring Senior engineers toward future technical leadership and building the bench needed to eventually justify Staff/Principal-level promotions.
- Generative AI & Tool Calling: Solid grasp of prompt engineering, function calling, structured outputs, and agentic specifications (e.g., Model Context Protocol / MCP).
- Code Refactoring & Systems Rigor: Ability to dissect complex domain scripts or unstructured documentation and refactor them into modular, testable, production-ready code.
- Testing & Quality Mindset: Experience writing unit/integration test cases, mocking API dependencies, and debugging schema mismatches.
- Strategic Agility: Ability to ramp up quickly on new business domains and deliver high-impact capabilities in rapid iteration cycles.
Primary Location Base Pay Range: €110,400 EUR - €165,600 EUR Ireland