Engineering Manager (Dev AI)

Airbnb; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid volunteer time

Health food and snacks

Generous parental and family leave

Learning and development

Annual travel and experiences credit

Job summary

Airbnb's Dev AI team builds foundational AI tooling and infrastructure to boost developer productivity across the software lifecycle. The role shapes the technical direction of infrastructure and products, spanning AI coding tools, internal SDKs, and rapid AI app development platforms.

You will lead collaboration across teams, stay ahead of evolving AI tooling, and empower developers with scalable solutions that accelerate innovation across Airbnb's product surface.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience supporting and coaching Staff+ (ideally multiple) and Senior engineers.
• Experience managing a remote/distributed team.
• 2+ years of experience as a full-time manager.
• Experience applying AI technologies to real-world software development challenges.
• Prior experience building developer infrastructure, tooling, or platforms, ideally at scale and with tools, frameworks, or systems commonly used in the industry.
• A track record of quickly ramping up in new domains, technologies, or languages - and a genuine excitement for continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Shape and execute the technical direction of the team's infrastructure and products.
• Partner with Staff and Sr. Staff engineers to align architecture trade-offs and product direction.
• Help teams adopt and leverage new AI capabilities in their day-to-day workflows across the company.
• Foster relationships with partner teams and stakeholders, and craft working agreements.
• Coach and mentor the team with empathy to grow in their roles and responsibilities.
• Contribute to the broader organization's culture and processes with a first-team mentality.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Staff coaching

Remote team management

AI tooling experience

Excellent communication

Job description

• The Dev AI team specifically builds the foundational AI tooling and infrastructure that powers developer productivity across the entire software development lifecycle, also providing the building blocks for teams across the company to quickly and simply create their own domain-specific AI tools
• We currently serve as both a platform team and an internal AI consultancy for partner teams building their own internally-facing AI-powered solutions
• In this role, you will help to shape and execute the technical direction of the team's infrastructure and products
• You'll work across a range of exciting problem spaces, from agentic coding tools and asynchronous AI workflow platforms, to SDKs for rapid internal AI app development and AI-assisted code migration
• . At Airbnb, you won't just build AI tools; your work will shape how individuals across the company work every day. The tools you create will directly accelerate the pace of innovation across our entire product surface
• We're a collaborative, low-ego, and highly-visible team that values experimentation, learning, and shipping. We celebrate what works and learn quickly from what doesn't
• Given the rapid evolution of AI, we strive to operate with startup-like agility, iterating swiftly to evaluate and incorporate the most recent AI technologies into our developer tooling
• Help shape and drive our AI for Developers strategy, partnering with Staff and Sr. Staff engineers to assist them in aligning architecture trade-offs and product direction
• Stay current on the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape, and help the team balance innovation with incremental, measurable developer impact
• Serve as a champion, expert, coach, and consultant to empower teams and leaders across the company to adopt and leverage new AI capabilities in their day to day workflows
• Foster relationships with partner teams and stakeholders, as well as crafting working agreements
• Coach and mentor the team with empathy to do their best work while growing in their roles & responsibilities
• Contribute to the broader organization's culture and processes (with a first team mentality)

Benefits

• Paid volunteer time
• Health food and snacks
• Generous parental and family leave
• Learning and development
• Annual travel and experiences credit

If you enjoy building, collaborating across teams, thrive when given high autonomy, and are motivated to make the lives of other developers easier and more enjoyable, we'd love to hear from youDemonstrated success partnering cross-functionally, with excellent written and verbal communication skillsExperience supporting and coaching Staff+ (ideally multiple) and Senior engineersExperience managing a remote/distributed team2+ years of experience as a full-time managerExperience applying AI technologies to real-world software development challengesPrior experience building developer infrastructure, tooling, or platforms, ideally at scale and with tools, frameworks, or systems commonly used in the industryA track record of quickly ramping up in new domains, technologies, or languages - and a genuine excitement for continuous learning