AI Software Engineering Manager

Trimble Inc.; Lake Oswego (OR); On-site; USD 171,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental and Vision insurance

Life Insurance

Disability coverage

Retirement plan

RSU/Stock purchase plan

Job summary

Trimble Inc. is seeking an AI PDLC Engineering Manager to guide an agile team in Lake Oswego, OR. You will blend senior technical architecture with people leadership, deploying agentic AI frameworks and multi-agent orchestration while mentoring engineers and shaping career growth.

You’ll own hiring, onboarding, and performance coaching, ensuring secure, scalable features. Expect collaboration across cross-functional groups and a strong focus on ethical AI and compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI product development life cycle (PDLC)
• Proven people management and engineering leadership in agile teams
• Expertise in object-oriented design and C#/.NET, plus modern frontend frameworks
• Deep SQL/ETL, API development, and enterprise CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated commitment to ethical AI, privacy, explainability, bias mitigation

Responsibilities

• Direct the pod's AI tool usage and establish architectural guardrails
• Turn AI prototypes into production-grade software with robust error handling and security
• Lead hiring, onboarding, and career development for your pod
• Build and maintain shared repositories, data access standards, and pipelines
• Align engineering output with product strategy and risk standards

Skills

PDLC leadership

People management

OO design

C# / .NET

Frontend JS frameworks

SQL / ETL

Ethical AI

Tools

Angular

React

Vue

CI/CD

Job description

Elevate Organizational Performance: Drive the Future of AI-Powered Teams as our Next AI PDLC Engineering Manager

Step into a high-impact leadership role where you will directly shape the future of product development by combining hands-on technical architecture with agentic AI innovation. You will guide an agile engineering team to turn prototype AI capabilities into secure, scalable production features while directly empowering the career growth and success of your pod.

About Us

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. For more information about Trimble (Nasdaq:TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.

What Makes This Role Great

This unique position blends senior technical architecture with direct people leadership, placing you at the heart of our AI transformation. You will serve as both the primary technical backstop and the primary advocate for your team, directly deploying cutting-edge agentic frameworks, multi-agent orchestration, and modern AI tooling to solve complex enterprise problems.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Direct the pod's use of AI coding agents, orchestrating workflows, reviewing output, and establishing architectural guardrails to ensure sustainable code quality.
• Transform high-potential agentic prototypes into production-ready software with robust error handling, security compliance, test coverage, and observability.
• Lead, mentor, and advocate for a talented pod of engineers, owning hiring, onboarding, career development, and performance coaching.
• Build and maintain shared repositories, CI/CD pipelines, evaluation datasets, and data access standards that accelerate delivery without sacrificing stability.
• Align engineering throughput with product strategy, risk management, and organizational standards while advocating for your pod across cross-functional groups.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated experience using and managing an AI Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) process, including directing agentic AI tools across planning and delivery.
• Proven track record of people management and technical leadership within fast-paced agile environments.
• Strong proficiency in object-oriented design and programming, with deep expertise in .NET/C# alongside modern front-end frameworks like Angular, React, or Vue.
• Deep hands-on experience with relational databases, SQL, API development, ETL processes, and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Applied commitment to ethical AI principles, including data privacy, explainability, transparency, and bias mitigation.

Bonus Points For

• Experience architecting complex enterprise solutions and implementing agentic RAG or context engineering patterns.
• Proven capability navigating legacy systems and modernizing them using scalable multi-agent workflows.

Logistics

Location: Lake Oswego, OR In Office 4 days a week

Travel Requirement: Minimal to 10%

Why You'll Love Working With Us

• You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.
• Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.
• Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

AI Engineering Manager, Agentic AI, PDLC, Software Engineering Manager, C#, .NET, Multi-Agent Orchestration, Software Architecture, Full Stack Engineering, Agile Leadership

Compensation

Hiring Range: $170,600.00-$234,600.00

Pay Rate Type: Salary

Bonus Eligible?: Yes

Commission Eligible?: No

Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission-or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values-Belong, Innovate, and Grow we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under Governance->Governance Documents.

Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.

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