Engineering Manager, AI Engineering: Chat

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of experienced frontend, backend, and AI engineers delivering GitLab Duo Chat roadmap commitments across the DevSecOps lifecycle.
• Partner with product and UX teams to define requirements and deliver AI features that address customer needs and improve answer quality.
• Participate in technical architecture and development for systems that run AI agents at scale, focusing on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Set direction, track milestones, and remove blockers to keep delivery on schedule.
• Coach engineers through feedback, guidance, and development conversations.
• Promote a culture of curiosity, inclusion, accountability, and steady delivery.
• Improve quality, testing, performance, coverage, and observability for AI-powered chat workflows.

Requirements

• Experience managing engineering teams in a distributed environment and enabling strong execution.
• Strong software engineering foundation and ability to evaluate engineering tradeoffs.
• Hands-on familiarity with agentic AI or generative AI applied to software development workflows.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, changing requirements, and fast-moving product development.
• Clear communication and collaboration across engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders.
• Dedication to coaching engineers and creating an inclusive, constructive team environment.
• Comfort balancing people management with technical involvement in day-to-day development.
• Openness to transferable technical experience aligned with managing AI-powered product teams.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Team member resource groups
• Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
• Growth and development fund
• Parental leave