AI-Driven Engineering Lead - Hands-On & Team Builder

Polluxa, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking a hands-on leader to head a small team of product engineers, shipping code and maintaining the health of the product and process.

The role centers on designing and running a development workflow where AI agents perform a large share of implementation while humans stay accountable for what ships. As a hands-on player-coach, you will decide trusted points for agents versus human decisions, establish verification points, and drive delivery with a focus on automation and

Qualifications

• Experience leading product engineering teams.
• Experience scaling engineering processes at a growing company.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team. Manage, mentor, and grow a team of product engineers. Run planning, set the product engineering strategy, and keep delivery predictable.
• Own the AI-native process. Define how work is decomposed into agent-runnable tasks: kickoff prompts, acceptance criteria, UAT checkpoints, and completion reports. Continuously refine what works.
• Keep humans in charge of what matters. Establish clear human-decision points - PR approval and merge, commit sign-off, and user acceptance testing - so AI output is always verified by an accountable engineer before it lands.
• Ship product. Design, build, and maintain features with AI native engineering.
• Own data and integrations. Steward our database architecture and the integrations that connect us to schools - SIS rostering pipelines (OneRoster, Clever, ClassLink) that get the right students into the right classes with the right data.
• Set the quality bar. Testing standards, CI checks, review discipline, and security practices appropriate for a platform serving a million students a year.
• Measure and improve. Track where AI-assisted development helps and where it hurts. Kill process that slows the team down; scale what makes it faster and safer.

Skills

Team leadership

Mentoring

Planning

Strategy development

Job description

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking a hands-on leader to head a small team of product engineers, shipping code and maintaining the health of the product and process.

The role centers on designing and running a development workflow where AI agents perform a large share of implementation while humans stay accountable for what ships. As a hands-on player-coach, you will decide trusted points for agents versus human decisions, establish verification points, and drive delivery with a focus on automation and