Manager, Engineering Agentic Platform
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Job Summary
Ignite Your Future:
As an Engineering Manager at QAD you will lead an agile engineering team responsible for designing building and delivering highquality software. You will combine handson technical understanding with people leadership helping engineers do their best work while delivering meaningful business outcomes.
Active use of AI-native development workflows Cursor Claude Code and CodeRabbit or equivalent is a baseline requirement not a nice-to-have. We treat AI augmentation as the standard engineering operating model. Leaders are expected to use these tools personally set norms for their teams and demonstrate that AI tooling raises the output of their entire squad. Candidates who view AI tools as optional or experimental are not the right fit for this organization.
The Mission: What Youll Be Building
You will guide a team building features and services across QADs adaptive cloudnative platform contributing directly to customerfacing capabilities and platform foundations.
Lead for the engine room of ERA the runtime infrastructure that autonomous agents execute on.
Your Impact/ What you will be doing:
Deliver the Orchestrator Reasoning Engine Agent Runtime and Session/Memory Management systems
Own the LLM Gateway: model routing cost governance latency SLOs prompt versioning and model fallback
Ensure production reliability: agent sandboxing execution audit trails timeout handling and retry logic
Manage a squad of 5 engineers including 1 Principal Engineer
Qualifications :
What we are looking for
6 years in backend or AI/ML engineering with at least 2 years managing a squad
Experience operating production LLM systems real SLOs real failure modes real post-mortems
Deep understanding of agentic frameworks: orchestration patterns tool use and multi-step reasoning
MCP (Model Context Protocol) implementation experience
Prompt versioning eval pipeline design and agent behavior testing
Responsible AI guardrails and agent safety architecture
The Mindset:
People-Centered Leader: Cares deeply about team health growth and inclusion.
Execution-Oriented: Focuses on delivering value consistently and reliably.
Technically Curious: Continuously builds technical depth to better support the team.
Accountable Owner: Takes responsibility for commitments and outcomes.
- Collaborative: Works openly with Product QA and peer teams.
Additional Information :
Why QAD
You will directly lead grow and mentor a high-impact agile team playing a key role in delivering features on our adaptive cloud-native platform. This is an opportunity to combine hands-on technical guidance with people leadership driving real-world product outcomes using modern cloud technologies and contributing to the future of intelligent manufacturing.
Company Description:
QAD is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent adaptive platform that connects people processes and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars Redzone (frontline empowerment) Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone) and Champion AI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) QAD Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace achieving measurable productivity resilience and growth in just 90 days.
QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QADs DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class.
About QAD:
QAD Redzone is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent adaptive platform that connects people processes and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars Redzone (frontline empowerment) Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone) and Champion AI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) QAD Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace achieving measurable productivity resilience and growth in just 90 days.
QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QADs DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
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