Hands-On Senior Engineering Manager - AI/Video Data

Clip Automation, Inc.

Fort Worth (TX)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 225,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity

Hybrid work model

403(b) / 401(k) benefits

Job summary

Clip Automation, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the development team and own delivery across the ClipSuite platform. Reporting to the CTO, you will set technical direction while shipping code and mentoring engineers.

You will drive data-intensive architecture, AI/ML integration, and scalable video processing in a hybrid Palo Alto-based role with US-wide travel. This is a fast-moving startup with equity and strong benefits.

Qualifications

10–15+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership
Hands-on coding and leadership by example
Deep cloud knowledge (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Experience scaling ML inference workloads or computer vision pipelines
Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE or related field
Strong strategic planning and incident management

Responsibilities

Define the long-term vision for telemetry, data ingestion, AI/LLM-based highlight detection, and infra
Contribute as a hands-on developer and lead engineer while managing the team
Ensure data reliability and source of truth for downstream apps
Oversee data and video pipelines, GPU clusters, cloud storage, real-time and batch processing
Design multi-tenant data architecture and lead factory data-source pipelines
Partner with AI/ML teams to integrate telemetry with products
Align with Operations, Product, and Sales to roadmap
Own delivery, release predictability, system reliability, and incident escalation
Recruit and mentor software engineers and DevOps talent
Manage AWS, data, tooling budgets and vendor selections