Aaru
Engineering Manager, Platform
$280K–$425K
New York, NY · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
- Experience
- Led a team of four to ten engineers; no specific number of years stated.
About the job
Leads Aaru’s Platform team in building APIs, workflows, and interfaces that let customers configure simulations, run them, and interpret results.
What you'll do
- Lead and hire a team of Members of Technical Staff; set priorities and deliver platform work.
- Set technical direction, make architecture decisions, review designs, and contribute code to difficult problems.
- Work with Product and Research to turn research into reliable customer-facing capabilities and shape the platform roadmap.
What they ask for
- Prior experience building and operating production systems as a senior engineer before becoming a manager.
- Experience leading a team of four to ten engineers delivering production systems.
- Willingness to work in person in New York.
Nice to have
- Experience with developer platforms, APIs, or products built on ML/AI systems; close work with research teams.
- Experience as a founder or early engineer at a fast-growth startup.
Pay
$280,000–$425,000 USD base salary
Tools
APIs, ML/AI
AI focus
Turn research into reliable product capabilities for configuring and running AI-powered simulations and interpreting results.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative