Engineering Manager, Platform

📋 Job Overview

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead one of Cartesia's core engineering teams as a hands-on technical and people leader. You'll build and grow a team of 7+ engineers, own its technical direction and execution, and stay close enough to the work to provide meaningful technical leadership when it matters.

🏢 About Cartesia

Our mission is to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do. We're pioneering the model architectures that will make this possible. Our founding team met as PhDs at the Stanford AI Lab, where we invented State Space Models or SSMs, a new primitive for training efficient, large-scale foundation models. Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering paired with a design-minded product engineering team to build and ship cutting edge models and experiences.

🎯 The Role

You'll build and grow a team of 7+ engineers, own its technical direction and execution, and stay close enough to the work to provide meaningful technical leadership when it matters.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Own your team's roadmap, decisions, and outcomes, setting clear priorities and driving a high and predictable shipping cadence.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, design reviews, complex technical problems, and production incidents.
• Develop a deep understanding of your team's systems and technical tradeoffs so you can challenge assumptions, make sound decisions, and unblock the team.
• Partner closely with Product, Research, and other teams to set direction and deliver against company priorities.
• Ensure the systems your team owns scale ahead of the business while maintaining a high bar for performance, reliability, and engineering quality.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams, including coaching, performance management, and career growth.
• Strong technical depth and engineering judgment, with the ability to earn credibility with experienced engineers and engage deeply in architecture and technical decisions.
• A track record of leading teams to deliver complex technical projects in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Strong ownership and prioritization skills, with the ability to make difficult tradeoffs and balance near-term execution with longer-term investments.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems with high demands on performance, reliability, and observability.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to align stakeholders around technical decisions and priorities.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience building or scaling engineering teams through periods of rapid growth or organizational change.
• Background in machine learning, AI infrastructure, or generative models.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive base salary alongside attractive equity package.
• Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family.
• 9 weeks paternity & 12 weeks maternity leave
• 401(k)
• Monthly stipend to help you get to and from the office.
• Flexible PTO
• Lunch, dinner and plenty of snacks, provided daily.
• Your own personal Yoshi

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We provide visa sponsorship support and assess each circumstance on a case-by-case basis. However, visa sponsorship is dependent on many factors, including the role you are applying for, and the location you are going to be based, and so we can't always guarantee success. Your Recruiter will work with you to understand your visa sponsorship needs from the first call.