Senior Engineering Manager, AI Developer Platform

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Engineering Manager (AI developer platform / agentic builders experience)

Description

Meta Factory is a model-independent platform that helps agents understand goals, use tools, evaluate outcomes, and improve over time. The Senior Engineering Manager will own engineering execution and lead teams building the agent harness, agent definitions, execution loop, evaluation and self-improvement systems, and the skills framework. The role also includes build-versus-buy decisions and staying current with agentic standards and AI engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering execution for Meta Factory, including the agent harness, agent definitions, execution loop, evaluations, self-improvement systems, and skills framework

• Lead development of the agent harness, including runtime, tool integrations, context management, control mechanisms, and execution environments

• Build and lead a high-performing engineering team; partner cross-functionally to deliver prioritized, reliable, secure, and scalable execution

• Design feedback systems that enable agents to evaluate work, learn from outcomes, and improve over time

• Lead build-versus-buy evaluations across the Meta Factory stack with clear recommendations on where to adopt external solutions vs. build key capabilities

• Stay current with agentic standards, model capabilities, and AI engineering practices; apply relevant advances to Meta Factory

Requirements

• Experience building and scaling engineering teams delivering AI, developer platform, or infrastructure systems

• 5+ years of people management experience, including 2+ years leading teams deploying AI applications in production

• Technical depth in AI/ML systems, including LLM APIs, agent frameworks, modern software engineering practices, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure

• Architecture judgment: review designs, evaluate tradeoffs, identify fragile agent behavior, and mitigate production risks early

• Experience developing engineers and supporting career growth

• Clear communication skills to explain technical concepts, align stakeholders, and drive decisions