Principal Engineering Manager, AI Agents
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Life at UiPath
The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. Were committed to creating categoryleading enterprise software that unleashes that power.
To make that happen we need people who are curious selfpropelled generous and genuine. People who love being part of a fastmoving fastthinking growth company. And people who careabout each other about UiPath and about our larger purpose.
Could that be you
Join UiPath where we combine automation and AI to accelerate human achievement. We are building the future of intelligent automation through agentic automation creating agents that handle complex tasks autonomously. We are seeking a Principal Engineering Manager to lead and grow a highperforming team focused on core components of our AI platform with a major focus on developing capabilities like Context Grounding ( This essential service provides the foundation for our AI Agents (such as those built with Autopilot and Agent Builder) to understand and interact effectively with enterprise data and applications.
As a Principal Engineering Manager you will be responsible for the overall success of your team balancing technical leadership people management and strategic execution. You will drive the technical roadmap manage deliverables foster a culture of excellence and contribute technically to the most challenging problems.
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What youll do at UiPath:
Lead and Manage a HighPerforming Team:
Build mentor and manage a team of talented AI/Software engineers fostering their growth performance and career development.
Actively participate in hiring onboarding and retaining top engineering talent continuously raising the bar for the team and UiPath Engineering.
Drive Technical Strategy and Roadmap Execution:
Own and drive the technical roadmap for your teams area (e.g. Context Grounding core AI services) collaborating closely with Product Management scientists and other stakeholders to define strategy and priorities.
Lead the team in architecting designing developing and operating largescale reliable and efficient cloud services particularly AIdriven components.
Ensure the teams technical strategy aligns with broader platform goals and business needs making informed tradeoffs between shortterm delivery and longterm technical health.
Manage Deliverables and Execution:
Take full ownership of your teams software deliverables ensuring they meet high standards of quality security scalability performance and maintainability.
Implement and refine agile processes define clear done criteria and manage project timelines risks and dependencies effectively.
Negotiate effectively with other engineering teams to manage dependencies align on technical interfaces secure resources and ensure smooth crossteam collaboration.
Maintain Technical Excellence and Handson Contribution:
Stay deeply technical guiding the team through complex architectural decisions design reviews and technical challenges.
Actively contribute to engineering work items potentially including handson coding for critical components complex debugging or prototyping new concepts.
Champion and continuously improve engineering best practices (CI/CD testing security IaC operational excellence) within your team and influence adoption across wider groups.
Drive root cause analysis for production issues ensuring robust solutions and continuous improvement in system reliability and performance.
Foster Innovation and Collaboration:
Incubate new ideas stay abreast of emerging technologies (especially in AI/GenAI LLMs RAG) and drive their adoption where relevant.
Communicate technical concepts team strategy and project status effectively across diverse audiences including senior leadership.
Build strong relationships and trust across teams and geographies.
What youll bring to the team:
A proven track record of 8 years in software engineering including significant experience architecting and delivering complex largescale commercial applications or platform services.
Demonstrable experience in leading engineering teams or significant technical initiatives including mentoring engineers and driving project delivery. (Formal management experience is highly preferred but strong tech lead experience with clear peoplefocused responsibilities will be considered).
Masters or PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering AI or a related technical field OR equivalent practical experience.
Demonstrable experience in shipping commercial products or features leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) technologies. Deeper experience with specific Large Language Models (LLM) RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) LLMOps or transformerbased models is highly valuable.
Expertise in key programming languages such as Python (especially with AI/ML frameworks) TypeScript and/or C# backed by solid objectoriented programming principles and computer science fundamentals.
Deep understanding of data structures algorithms architectural design patterns (e.g. microservices eventdriven) and system design for building highly scalable distributed and reliable platform services.
Significant experience designing building and operating cloudbased systems (Azure preferred experience with AWS/GCP is also relevant).
Strong grasp of multithreading asynchronous programming API design (REST gRPC) and building reliable highperformance cloud services.
Experience with serviceoriented architecture (SOA) microservices and web services development.
Proven ability to provide both technical and people leadership drive technical strategy manage team execution and foster best practices (including CI/CD automated testing monitoring alerting and modern DevOps principles).
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and tools (e.g. Terraform).
Ability to work effectively within globally distributed teams.
Excellent communication negotiation and interpersonal skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly manage stakeholder expectations and build consensus.
Strong strategic thinking and problemsolving skills.
Maybe you dont tick all the boxes abovebut still think youd be great for the job Go ahead apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizesand passion cant be learned.
Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role the number of hybrid officebased and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.
We value a range of diverse backgrounds experiences and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity and expression national origin disability neurodiversity military and/or veteran status or any other protected classes. Additionally UiPath provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants privacy rights. To review these and other legal disclosures visit our .
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
