Snorkel AI
Senior Manager, Coder Fellows
$175K–$250K
United States (Remote) +1 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- United States (Remote)
Palo Alto, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years, including direct management of programmers or software engineers.
- Education
- A computer-science degree is not required.
About the job
Manages and develops Coding Fellows across projects, overseeing people support and performance while partnering with delivery teams on technical quality and growth.
What you'll do
- Coach Fellows, set expectations, and handle onboarding, performance reviews, feedback, and development.
- Synthesize performance evidence across projects and address concerns fairly, using contextualized metrics rather than raw activity alone.
- Review representative technical work and partner with delivery teams to improve quality, transitions, and feedback processes.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, technical leadership, or a related environment, including direct management of programmers or software engineers.
- Demonstrated experience hiring, onboarding, coaching, conducting performance reviews, delivering actionable feedback, and handling difficult conversations.
- Experience managing people across multiple projects, clients, teams, or changing assignments.
- Technical depth to read and discuss code and pull requests, assess engineering judgment, and understand core software-development practices.
Nice to have
- Experience in a consultancy, software agency, contract engineering shop, professional-services organization, staff-augmentation model, or similar distributed environment.
- Experience with AI/ML development, model evaluation, annotation, data quality, or technical-content production.
Pay
$175,000 — $250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
code, pull requests
AI focus
Manages Fellows producing technical content used to train and evaluate AI systems; related helpful experience includes AI/ML development, model evaluation, annotation, and data quality.
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