Software Engineering Manager, Agentic AI

Tulip Interfaces • Somerville, MA

5d • $160,000 - $220,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Tulip is hiring a Software Engineering Manager for its agent-native app-building product. The role owns the technical architecture and delivery of a new canvas-based authoring and administration experience that maps customers’ production systems, including apps, data, automations, and related context. The product is intended to change how customers compose, deploy, and operate apps on Tulip’s platform. The team also works on asset import and export, enterprise governance, and integration with Tulip Library.

The manager will hire, mentor, and grow a team of 3–5 engineers, provide hands-on technical leadership, and establish engineering standards for testing, observability, and AI-driven development. The role partners with Infrastructure and other engineering teams to evolve Tulip’s API surface and runtime for agent needs while preserving the existing platform. It also collaborates closely with product, design, customer-facing teams, and customers, and helps foster an AI-first development culture.

The position is based in Somerville, Massachusetts, in a hybrid work environment requiring at least three days per week in the office. Tulip describes its platform as a cloud-native, no-code solution with embedded AI for frontline industrial operations.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience building and scaling large SaaS products and complex distributed systems.
• 3+ years of people management experience leading a software development team, with hands-on technical leadership, solution architecture, and continued involvement with code.
• Experience building and scaling AI systems in production, including agent orchestration and context management, retrieval pipelines and vector stores, and tool invocation and MCPs.
• Experience designing and running evaluations for agentic systems, including defining success criteria, building task suites, and measuring reliability across multi-step tool use.
• Expertise in contemporary technology stacks including React, Node.js, MongoDB, and Postgres, and experience deploying in multi-cloud and multi-tenant environments.
• Active use of AI tooling in their own practice and a point of view on how it changes the way teams build.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent working experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture and delivery of Tulip’s new agent-native app-building product.
• Hire, mentor, and grow a team of 3–5 engineers capable of operating with high autonomy and quality.
• Establish engineering standards for testing, observability, and AI-driven development practices.
• Partner with Infrastructure and other Engineering teams to evolve Tulip’s API surface and runtime to support agents without compromising the existing platform.
• Collaborate with product, design, and customer-facing teams as a product-threaded team with shared ownership of outcomes.
• Cultivate an AI-first development culture and continuously raise the bar on velocity and quality.

Benefits

• Company equity.
• Competitive benefits package including health, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, AD&D insurance, flexible spending account (FSA), commuter benefits, parental leave, and 401(k).
• Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation policy.
• Learning & Development program.
• Virtual and in-office global company events and happy hours.
• Fitness subsidies.
• Inclusive, dog-friendly office.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager