Engineering Manager: Automation, AI & Service Reliability

SLAC; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SLAC seeks an Engineering Manager for Automation & Service Reliability to lead a small team of engineers delivering integration platforms, RPA, and data services for Stanford University's IT Infrastructure. This hybrid technical working manager role combines hands-on project guidance with people leadership and strategic direction, including agentic AI initiatives.

You will partner with university IT stakeholders and healthcare partners, coaching teammates, reviewing designs, and ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience leading an automation/IT infrastructure team.
• Ability to review architecture and designs for reliability and security.
• Experience with incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Experience coaching and career development.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow a team, including performance reviews and development plans.
• Guide architecture and design decisions for AI solutions and data services.
• Own service reliability for production systems and incident response.
• Define roadmaps for agentic AI and pilot use cases.
• Collaborate with IT stakeholders and communicate roadmap and risks.

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Architecture decisions

Incident response

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Mulesoft

UiPath

Oracle APEX

ServiceNow

Data pipelines

Job description

SLAC seeks an Engineering Manager for Automation & Service Reliability to lead a small team of engineers delivering integration platforms, RPA, and data services for Stanford University's IT Infrastructure. This hybrid technical working manager role combines hands-on project guidance with people leadership and strategic direction, including agentic AI initiatives.

You will partner with university IT stakeholders and healthcare partners, coaching teammates, reviewing designs, and ensuring