Engineering Manager
Hybrid (Oakland, CA (or remote within US timezones))$250k - $300kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Engineering Manager at Elicit responsible for building and growing a high-performing engineering team, shipping ambitious product features, improving engineering practices, and multiplying the team’s impact, with a coaching-led leadership style and hands-on engagement in architecture and technical decisions.
Responsibilities
- Build and grow a high-performing engineering team
- Directly manage a team of up to 8 software engineers.
- Coach engineers through technical growth, career development, and increasing ownership.
- Build a culture of high standards, rapid iteration, and thoughtful execution.
- Help identify, hire, onboard, and develop exceptional engineers.
- Ship ambitious and successful product features
- Partner closely with product, designers, and fellow engineers to prioritize tactical and strategic goals into an audacious roadmap.
- Own the execution of a significant portion of Elicit’s roadmap.
- Balance shipping quickly against building systems that remain maintainable as Elicit grows.
- Remove execution bottlenecks and ensure the team consistently delivers high-quality work.
- Raise our engineering bar
- Participate in architectural discussions and technical planning.
- Review code and provide thoughtful technical feedback.
- Help engineers make strong engineering tradeoffs around performance, reliability, scalability, and simplicity.
- Actively improve engineering processes, tooling, and team effectiveness.
- Multiply the impact of the team
- Develop engineers into increasingly independent technical leaders.
- Give actionable feedback through regular coaching and performance management.
- Foster a collaborative environment where engineers learn from one another and continuously improve.
- Guide the team towards wise use of coding agents: pushing for ambitious use while staying honest about what's actually saving time.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 3+ years directly managing software engineers.
- Experience leading engineering teams at high-bar startups.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and the technical depth to earn the trust of senior engineers.
- Experience shipping complex, user-facing products with measurable business impact.
- A track record of helping engineers grow through coaching, mentorship, and clear feedback.
- Strong communication skills and an ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and design.
- Profound curiosity about language models, AI, and building products that improve reasoning and decision-making.
Skills
Required:People leadership
Benefits
- Flexible work environment: office in Oakland or remote with time zone overlap; quarterly in-person offsites
- Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and generous coverage for family (FSA/HSA)
- Flexible vacation policy with minimum 20 days/year plus holidays
- $200 monthly wellbeing stipend
- 401K with a 6% employer match
- New Mac plus $1,000 initial workstation setup budget, then $500/year
- $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget
- Team administrative assistant
- Additional benefits per location as applicable
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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