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AI Engineering Manager(m/w/x)

Berlin
Full-timeRemoteManagement
AI/ML

Leading AI agent and workflow development for an open orchestration platform. First-line engineering management experience required. Visa sponsorship for Germany, 30 days vacation.

Requirements

  • First-line engineering management experience
  • Experience leading teams delivering automation platforms, workflow systems, or AI features
  • Significant experience with Evaluations & driving results
  • Strong people leadership and coaching skills
  • Ability to build thriving teams in ambiguous, evolving spaces
  • Comfort with ambiguity and speed
  • Ability to bring clarity in emerging agent patterns, tooling, and best practices
  • Strong software engineering background
  • Ability to discuss distributed systems, APIs, and system design
  • Willingness to dive into workflow logic, integrations, or AI systems
  • Cross-functional alignment experience
  • Experience working with Product and Design on end-user-facing builder experiences
  • High-growth SaaS experience
  • Understanding of scaling teams and systems in fast-moving environments
  • AI/agent exposure
  • Experience with LLMs, agents, or automation systems
  • Understanding of AI/agent strengths, limitations, and failure modes
  • n8n or workflow tooling familiarity
  • Experience with n8n or similar automation platforms
  • Integration-heavy systems background
  • Background in building or scaling API-driven platforms or extensible systems
  • Deep agent experience
  • Hands-on work with agent frameworks, tool use, memory systems, or multi-step reasoning workflows
  • Observability & debugging experience
  • Experience building tools for inspecting, debugging, and improving complex workflows or AI systems
  • Responsible AI awareness
  • Awareness of guardrails, failure handling, and safe automation practices in user-facing AI systems

Tasks

  • Build and lead an engineering team
  • Empower engineers on their growth path
  • Align stakeholders and foster confidence
  • Lead teams on AI agents and workflows
  • Develop agent-based systems and orchestration capabilities
  • Foster a culture of experimentation and iteration
  • Improve prompts, tool usage, and workflow logic
  • Design reliable agentic workflows
  • Support hiring and team shaping
  • Navigate emerging AI and orchestration patterns
  • Translate AI capabilities into product direction
  • Guide agent architecture decisions
  • Focus on real, reliable user value
  • Partner with Product and Design
  • Define and ship intuitive workflows
  • Deliver end-to-end agent systems
  • Establish best practices for reliability
  • Balance speed with determinism and trust
  • Drive improvements in workflow building
  • Lead with technical credibility
  • Mentor and challenge the team
  • Support architectural decisions
  • Handle long-running workflows and APIs
  • Step into technical details as needed
  • Promote safety and predictable behavior

Work Experience

  • approx. 4 - 6 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • automation platforms
  • workflow systems
  • AI-powered features
  • LLMs
  • agents
  • automation systems
  • n8n
  • workflow tooling
  • API-driven platforms
  • extensible systems
  • agent frameworks
  • tool use
  • memory systems
  • multi-step reasoning workflows

Benefits

Other Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship for Germany
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance (US)
  • Life insurance (US)
  • Transparency

Competitive Pay

  • Equity

More Vacation Days

  • 30 days of vacation (Europe)

Healthcare & Fitness

  • Health benefits according to local country norms (Europe)
  • Low-premium medical plans (US)
  • Dental and vision coverage (US)

Retirement Plans

  • Pension contributions according to local country norms (Europe)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with 4% employer match (US)

Additional Allowances

  • 1000 EUR yearly budget for professional development
  • 100 USD per month for open source support
  • Unlimited AI budget

Team Events

  • Hackathons

Flexible Working

  • Remote-first

Informal Culture

  • Ambitious but kind culture
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