Engineering Manager — AI-Driven Logistics Platform

Augment; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Health, Vision, Dental

Flexible PTO

On-site Gym

Monthly Stipend

Job summary

Augment, a San Francisco-based AI-driven logistics company, is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and scale a core engineering team building autonomous operations. You’ll stay hands-on in architecture decisions while guiding product and platform initiatives with Product, AI, and Ops partners.

You will mentor engineers, drive delivery of high-quality systems, and help shape the team’s technical direction as the company grows in a fast-paced, startup environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years in engineering leadership or people management.
• Strong background in distributed systems and backend services.
• Experience leading teams in fast-growth environments.
• Hybrid work in San Francisco office.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a high-performing team of engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Drive technical execution on key product and platform initiatives, ensuring the team ships high-quality, reliable systems.
• Stay hands-on when needed — participate in architecture reviews, write production code occasionally, and support critical decision-making.
• Partner closely with Product, AI, and Ops to define roadmaps, clarify requirements, and align priorities.
• Experience building 0→1 products, with a willingness to stay hands-on while scaling and shaping the engineering function.
• Improve engineering processes, rituals, and on-call practices to help the team move faster with increasing quality.
• Create clarity through strong communication — ensuring teams understand goals, trade-offs, and success criteria.
• Collaborate with other engineering managers to shape engineering culture, standards, and best practices.
• Participate in hiring and onboarding to help scale our engineering organization, including building and leading our new Customer Support product team.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

Job description

Augment, a San Francisco-based AI-driven logistics company, is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and scale a core engineering team building autonomous operations. You’ll stay hands-on in architecture decisions while guiding product and platform initiatives with Product, AI, and Ops partners.

You will mentor engineers, drive delivery of high-quality systems, and help shape the team’s technical direction as the company grows in a fast-paced, startup environment.