Engineering Manager, Axion Ray
Infrastructure
$220-240k
Offers equity
More information about location
AI observability & quality management
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AI observability & quality management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-240k
Offers equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower manufacturers to resolve the highest priority issues to create the best possible products for their customers.
Role
Who you are
- This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of people management and technical depth, working closely with Engineering, Product, and Security to build the reliable, scalable, and secure foundation our customers depend on
- The ideal candidate brings deep DevOps and SRE experience, a passion for building high-performing teams, and a strong instinct for automation and operational excellence
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with at least 2 years in an engineering management or team lead role
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent)
- Strong background in CI/CD, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and incident management
- Proven ability to build, retain, and develop high-performing engineering teams
- Experience managing infrastructure for data-intensive or AI/ML workloads is a strong plus
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a bias toward action
- Experience at a venture-backed startup preferred
- You’re a builder and operator who thrives in fast-moving, high-accountability environments
- You take pride in getting things done — thoughtfully, efficiently, and without drama. You’re energized by ambiguity, skilled at bringing clarity, and comfortable flexing between strategy and execution
- You value feedback — giving it, receiving it, and acting on it — and you see collaboration as a competitive advantage, not a burden. You’re low-ego but high-agency: you care about winning as a team more than being right individually. You move quickly, communicate directly, and make decisions grounded in impact and data
- You don’t need constant direction — you create momentum. You take ownership for outcomes, and you expect the same from those around you
What the job involves
- We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure team — the backbone that powers Axion's AI platform at scale
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps and SRE engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement
- Own the strategy and execution of Axion's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, and incident response processes
- Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to align infrastructure investments with product scalability and reliability goals
- Drive a roadmap for infrastructure modernization, capacity planning, and cost efficiency across our cloud environments
- Champion security and compliance best practices, working cross-functionally to maintain a strong security posture
- Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets — and hold the team accountable to them
- Be hands-on when it counts: debugging production issues, reviewing architecture decisions, and unblocking your team
- Build and maintain the systems, tooling, and processes that let Axion's engineers ship fast with confidence
Our take
Engineering management is typically a slow and painstaking process, and quality control plays a major part in making it so. Axion Ray leverages data to help solve this problem, and to help engineering leaders make better decisions.
The company's focus on R&D acceleration and optimization has proven widely popular in the space, as it enables users to move from a reactive to proactive approach to quality. It counts some of the largest automotive and aerospace companies in the world among its partners, including Boeing and the US Air Force.
Axion's AI is also geared toward risk management and metadata mining, which is a key draw for enterprise-scale clients. Operating in an extremely competitive and high stakes industry, the company has great potential. It has already secured substantial investment which supports further innovation and development.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2024
$17.5m
SERIES A
Feb 2023
$7.5m
SEED
Total funding: $25m
Company benefits
- Employee stock option program
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (100% of employee premiums covered and 70% for dependents)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave (birthing parents)
- Daily lunch credit when you’re in the office (around $20/day)
- Relocation support
- 401(k) plan with optional supplemental life, disability, and more
- Commuter benefits
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Daniel First
(Founder & CEO)Previously worked in Advanced Analytics at QuantumBlack, and was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey.
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