[Remote] Engineering Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elicit is a growing company with a focus on building a high-performing engineering team. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to coach and develop engineers while ensuring the delivery of ambitious product features and maintaining high engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Build and grow a high-performing engineering team
- Directly manage a team of up to 8 software engineers
- Coach engineers through technical growth, career development, and increasing ownership
- Build a culture of high standards, rapid iteration, and thoughtful execution
- Help identify, hire, onboard, and develop exceptional engineers
- Partner closely with product, designers, and fellow engineers to prioritize tactical and strategic goals into an audacious roadmap
- Own the execution of a significant portion of Elicit’s roadmap
- Balance shipping quickly against building systems that remain maintainable as Elicit grows
- Remove execution bottlenecks and ensure the team consistently delivers high-quality work
- Participate in architectural discussions and technical planning
- Review code and provide thoughtful technical feedback
- Help engineers make strong engineering tradeoffs around performance, reliability, scalability, and simplicity
- Actively improve engineering processes, tooling, and team effectiveness
- Develop engineers into increasingly independent technical leaders
- Give actionable feedback through regular coaching and performance management
- Foster a collaborative environment where engineers learn from one another and continuously improve
- Guide the team towards wise use of coding agents: pushing for ambitious use while staying honest about what's actually saving time
Skills
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years directly managing software engineers
- Experience leading engineering teams at high-bar startups
- Strong computer science fundamentals and the technical depth to earn the trust of senior engineers
- Experience shipping complex, user-facing products with measurable business impact
- A track record of helping engineers grow through coaching, mentorship, and clear feedback
- Strong communication skills and an ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and design
- Profound curiosity about language models, AI, and building products that improve reasoning and decision-making
- Enjoy helping engineers grow even more than writing code yourself
- Care deeply about engineering craftsmanship without slowing delivery
- Can comfortably switch between coaching a teammate, reviewing architecture, and discussing product priorities in the same afternoon
- Prefer high-agency, low-process environments
- Are motivated by improving science, reasoning, and the long-term impact of AI
Benefits
- Flexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely with time zone overlap (between GMT and GMT-8), as long as you’re comfortable traveling for quarterly in-person offsites
- Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family (FSA/HSA, too)
- Flexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days / year and plenty of company holidays
- Every Elician receives a $200 monthly wellbeing stipend to spend on whatever supports your health and wellbeing.
- 401K with a 6% employer match
- A new Mac + $1,000 budget to set up your workstation or home office in your first year, then $500 every year thereafter
- $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget, so you can freely experiment with new AI tools to incorporate into your workflow, take courses, purchase educational resources, or attend AI-focused conferences and events
- A team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasks
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