Engineering Manager – Enterprise AI Agents

This is a moment of change — and tremendous potential. Do you want to be part of shaping what’s next in human-AI collaboration?

Sema4.ai enables the enterprise to build, run, and manage intelligent AI agents that transform how people work. As Generative AI shakes up every industry, enterprises are looking for ways to unleash stunning productivity gains; deliver efficiencies with profound effects on the bottom line; accelerate innovation pipelines; and disrupt new markets.

What you can expect from us:

• Unleash stunning productivity gains
• Deliver efficiencies with profound effects on the bottom line
• Accelerate your career growth by working with leading-edge technology, pioneering customers, and world-class colleagues

Recently named to Business Insider’s list of the most promising startups of 2024, Sema4.ai is funded by tier 1 venture capital firms–the ones who backed household names like Uber, Snapchat, Instagram, and Zendesk. Our founders are innovators in open source, big data, and automation-as-code. As previous leaders of the Enterprise Hadoop offering at Hortonworks and Cloudera, the Sema4.ai team has already managed a quarter of the world’s data with deployments in 90+ countries.

The Opportunity

At Sema4.ai, we're building an Enterprise AI Agent platform that reinvents how knowledge work happens—how people and AI agents collaborate to get work done better and faster. You'll manage a distributed, fast-moving team responsible for building the core of our product: the Agent.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager who is a strong team player and can operate effectively in a distributed product organization. You'll confidently lead sharp, senior ICs while ensuring smooth day-to-day operations across a distributed team.

Who You Are

• AI Native: You live and breathe AI. You leverage AI in your daily routines and actively follow the space. You understand what current models can and can't do. You stay current not through blogs, but by using the latest tools. You're enthusiastic about deploying generative AI to solve real-world enterprise use cases.
• High-Velocity Learner: You thrive in ambiguity. You can enter a new domain, align your team, and ship something useful faster than most. You remove blockers and accelerate execution.
• Execution-Oriented: You have a bias toward making things real. No hand-offs, no silos. You're there from discovery to deployment, ensuring your team delivers.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver Customer Value: Lead the team to translate customer needs into production-ready solutions, ensuring optimal quality, security, and performance at every stage of the software development lifecycle. 
• Build & Scale Teams:Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent. Create high-performing teams that balance autonomy with accountability in a distributed environment.
• Stay Hands-On: While programming isn't your primary job, you'll get familiar with the Python codebase and dedicate around 20% of your time to hands-on engineering work to understand what your team is building.
• Drive Technical Excellence: Partner with your peers to ensure architectural decisions align with business goals. Foster engineering best practices across your team.
• Execute & Iterate: Own delivery timelines, manage stakeholder expectations, and ensure your team ships high-quality features that move key metrics.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with 5+ years in engineering management, including managing distributed teams.
• Leadership & Communication Skills: Excellent ability to inspire teams, manage up and across, and convey complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Comfortable driving projects, influencing stakeholders, and developing senior engineers in distributed environments.
• People-First Leadership: Track record of building high-performing teams. Experience with performance management, career development, and creating psychologically safe environments where engineers thrive.
• Technical Depth: Engineering background that allows you to confidently engage in technical discussions and guide architectural decisions.
• Distributed Systems Expertise: Comfortable working with complex, high-availability distributed systems running on containerized environments such as Kubernetes.
• Problem-Solving & Adaptability: Adept at navigating ambiguous requirements, focusing on outcomes, and rapidly iterating to deliver high-quality solutions in a demanding, results-driven setting.
  

How We Work

• We move fast and value autonomy.
• We write to think and communicate clearly.
• We build together, not in silos.
• We value execution over plans, and customer impact over internal consensus.
• We work remotely across time zones, with flexible schedules and clear communication expectations.

Why Sema4.ai

•  We’re early—but shipping fast and solving real problems.
• You’ll have direct influence on product, culture, and strategy.
• You’ll join a driven, humble team of builders focused on impact.
• Founding team that has already “done it” before, with world-class investors.

Locations: US Eastern timezone, distributed team
Experience Level: Senior (10+ years of experience)
Team: Engineering
Reports To: Head of Engineering