Senior Engineering Manager

Ciklum; India; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Mental health support

Udemy access

Company-paid certifications

Internal mobility

Job summary

Ciklum is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager in India to lead a cross-functional team building agentic AI systems from the ground up. You will own technical direction, team growth, and delivery for 10–15 engineers working at the intersection of LLMs, orchestration, and production infrastructure.

You will drive AIDLC adoption, align with product managers, and ensure reliability, safety, and scalable architecture while mentoring engineers and shaping the org's engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering.
• 5+ years managing engineering teams.
• Proven experience building or operating LLM-powered systems (agents, RAG, tool-calling, orchestration frameworks).
• Cloud: AWS—Bedrock AgentCore, Step Functions (ASL), and related services.
• Strong knowledge of Observability and Evals for non-deterministic systems; ability to translate technical tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow AI & Forward Deployed Engineers building agent orchestration and tool-use frameworks.
• Set technical strategy for agent architecture: planning loops, memory, tool calling, multi-agent coordination, and guardrails.
• Drive the implementation of an AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AIDLC) approach across the org.
• Own the Observability and Evals strategy for agentic systems—tracing, monitoring, and eval frameworks.
• Partner with product managers to translate ambiguous problems into shippable agentic features.
• Own reliability and safety practices for autonomous systems (evals, sandboxing, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, rollback strategies).
• Drive hiring, mentorship, and career growth for your team.
• Balance hands-on architectural reviews with people management; report velocity and risk to leadership.
• Sketch out engineering estimations.

Skills

Agentic AI

Job description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Engineering Manager, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Senior Engineering Manager to lead a greenfield build of our agentic AI systems — autonomous, multi-step workflows where AI agents plan, use tools, and act with minimal human intervention. You'll own technical direction, team growth, and delivery for a group of 10–15 engineers working at the intersection of LLMs, orchestration, and production infrastructure, building this platform from the ground up.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a team of AI & Forward Deployed Engineers building agent orchestration, tool-use frameworks, and evaluation pipelines from zero
• Set technical strategy for agent architecture: planning loops, memory, tool calling, multi-agent coordination, and guardrails
• Drive the implementation of an AIDLC (AI-Driven Development Lifecycle) approach, replacing traditional PDLC/SDLC practices across the org
• Own the Observability and Evals strategy for agentic systems — tracing, monitoring, and eval frameworks for non-deterministic, multi-step workflows
• Partner with product managers to translate ambiguous problems into shippable agentic features
• Own reliability and safety practices for autonomous systems (evals, sandboxing, human-in-the- loop checkpoints, rollback strategies)
• Drive hiring, mentorship, and career growth for your team
• Balance hands-on technical involvement (architecture reviews, code reviews) with people managementReport on team velocity, system performance, and risk to leadership
• Sketch out engineering estimations

Requirements:

• 12+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years managing engineering teams
• Direct experience building or operating LLM-powered systems (agents, RAG, tool-calling, orchestration frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, or custom stacks)
• Proven track record of delivering an AIDLC implementation that successfully replaced PDLC/SDLC within an engineering organisation
• Cloud: AWS — excellent knowledge with Bedrock AgentCore, Step Functions (ASL), and related agent-hosting/orchestration services
• Strong knowledge of Harness engineering
• Strong experience with Observability and Evals for non-deterministic systems (tracing, eval harnesses, monitoring, drift/regression detection)
• Backend services: experience with Python and FastAPI
• Frontend: working knowledge of React, Tailwind, and Solstice (JLL design system)
• Track record of shipping ambiguous, fast-moving products under real constraints
• Excellent communicator who can translate technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

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Required Skills

• Agentic AI

Job Info

• Job Identification 4965
• Job Category Product Engineering Management