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Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Cartesia· Engineering
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*HQ - San Francisco, CA$250k - $375kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager to lead Cartesia's core engineering team, owning technical direction, team growth, and delivery of complex distributed infrastructure while maintaining high performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
  • Own your team's roadmap, decisions, and outcomes, setting clear priorities and driving a high and predictable shipping cadence.
  • Provide technical leadership across architecture, design reviews, complex technical problems, and production incidents.
  • Develop a deep understanding of your team's systems and technical tradeoffs so you can challenge assumptions, make sound decisions, and unblock the team.
  • Partner closely with Product, Research, and other teams to set direction and deliver against company priorities.
  • Ensure the systems your team owns scale ahead of the business while maintaining a high bar for performance, reliability, and engineering quality.

Qualifications

  • Experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams, including coaching, performance management, and career growth.
  • Strong technical depth and engineering judgment, with the ability to earn credibility with experienced engineers and engage deeply in architecture and technical decisions.
  • A track record of leading teams to deliver complex technical projects in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
  • Strong ownership and prioritization skills, with the ability to make difficult tradeoffs and balance near-term execution with longer-term investments.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems with high demands on performance, reliability, and observability.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to align stakeholders around technical decisions and priorities.
  • bonus: Experience building or scaling engineering teams through periods of rapid growth or organizational change.
  • bonus: Background in machine learning, AI infrastructure, or generative models.

Skills

Required:People leadership and team managementTechnical leadership and architectureDistributed systemsCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Compensation: Competitive base salary alongside attractive equity package.
  • Health Insurance: Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family.
  • Parental Leave: 9 weeks paternity & 12 weeks maternity leave
  • 401(k)
  • Commuter Allowance: A monthly stipend to help you get to and from the office.
  • Flexible PTO
  • Meals & Snacks: Lunch, dinner and plenty of snacks, provided daily.
  • Your own personal Yoshi
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Cartesia

Real-time TTS API with AI laughter and emotion

Cartesia offers Sonic-3, a streaming text-to-speech API capable of generating natural, expressive voices with laughter in 40+ languages—built for AI agents and interactive applications.

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