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Engineering Manager, Product

Cartesia· Engineering
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*HQ - San Francisco, CA$250k - $375kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Engineering Manager to build Cartesia's Product Engineering team as a hands-on technical and people leader. Start with the Voices squad, influence product surfaces across teams, and establish clear ownership while growing the team.

Responsibilities

  • Build alongside the team and contribute directly to important product and technical work, especially while the team is growing.
  • Lead and develop product engineers through coaching, feedback, career development, and a high bar for performance and craft.
  • Help grow the Product Engineering team by personally sourcing, interviewing, and closing exceptional engineers.
  • Partner closely with Product and Design to shape what we build, make strong product and technical tradeoffs, and turn ambiguous goals into shipped experiences.
  • Establish a predictable execution cadence without adding unnecessary process or losing the team's speed.
  • Raise the quality bar through hands-on design and code review, strong technical judgment, and clear examples of excellent product engineering.
  • Take ownership of neglected or cross-cutting surfaces — including billing, files, and team rotations — and step into the work directly when needed.
  • Help define how Product Engineering should evolve as the team grows, while remaining close to customers, the product, and the code.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of product engineering experience, including experience leading or managing engineers at a company with a high product bar.
  • Strong current technical ability and the credibility to contribute to architecture, design reviews, debugging, and production-quality code.
  • Experience building polished, customer-facing product surfaces and the product taste to explain what makes an experience excellent.
  • A track record of coaching engineers, giving direct and useful feedback, handling performance issues, and helping people expand their scope.
  • Evidence of leading through context, judgment, and contribution — not only through reporting lines or process.
  • Strong cross-functional instincts and experience working directly with Product and Design to set direction and make difficult tradeoffs.
  • A track record of hiring strong product engineers in a competitive market, including personal sourcing and closing.
  • Comfort moving between visible product work and unglamorous foundations such as billing, files, operational ownership, and on-call health.
  • The ability to operate with urgency and clarity in a fast-moving environment where the team and roadmap are still taking shape.
  • Genuine excitement about voice AI and building the product layer on top of state-of-the-art models.

Skills

Required:Product engineering leadershipTechnical architecture and designCross-functional collaborationHiring and sourcing engineersVoice AI interest

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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