Senior Engineering Manager: AI Agent Orchestration & Growth

Ciklum; United States; Remote; USD 42,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Learning & development

Job summary

Ciklum is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a greenfield AI platform in India. You will own technical direction, grow a cross-functional team of 10–15 engineers, and drive the delivery of agentic systems at scale. The role blends architecture leadership with people management in a fast-moving environment.

You will collaborate with product managers and ensure robust observability, safety, and governance while advancing LLM-powered orchestration across the stack.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading teams.
• Experience building or operating LLM-powered systems (agents, RAG, tooling).
• Proven AIDLC implementation replacing PDLC/SDLC.
• AWS cloud experience with Bedrock AgentCore and Step Functions.
• Observability and evals for non-deterministic systems.
• Backend in Python and FastAPI; frontend in React/Tailwind.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of AI & Forward Deployed Engineers building agent orchestration, tool-use frameworks, and evaluation pipelines from zero
• Set technical strategy for agent architecture: planning loops, memory, tool calling, multi-agent coordination, and guardrails
• Drive the implementation of an AIDLC approach, replacing traditional PDLC/SDLC practices across the org
• Own the Observability and Evals strategy for agentic systems — tracing, monitoring, and eval frameworks for non-deterministic, multi-step workflows
• Partner with product managers to translate ambiguous problems into shippable agentic features
• Own reliability and safety practices for autonomous systems (evals, sandboxing, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, rollback strategies)
• Drive hiring, mentorship, and career growth for your team
• Balance hands-on technical involvement (architecture reviews, code reviews) with people management
• Report on team velocity, system performance, and risk to leadership
• Sketch out engineering estimations

Skills

Leadership

LLM-powered systems

Python

FastAPI

AWS Bedrock

Step Functions

LangGraph / AutoGen

React

Tailwind

Observability

Team management

Tools

LangGraph

AutoGen

Bedrock AgentCore

Step Functions

Job description

Ciklum is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a greenfield AI platform in India. You will own technical direction, grow a cross-functional team of 10–15 engineers, and drive the delivery of agentic systems at scale. The role blends architecture leadership with people management in a fast-moving environment.

You will collaborate with product managers and ensure robust observability, safety, and governance while advancing LLM-powered orchestration across the stack.