Engineering Manager, Hardware Bringup United States ​/ Canada ​/ Europe · Remote

View all jobs Engineering Manager, Hardware Bringup United States / Canada / Europe Mojo Remote Full-time

At Modular, we’re on a mission to revolutionize AI infrastructure by systematically rebuilding the AI software stack from the ground up. Our team, made up of industry leaders and experts, is building cutting‑edge, modular infrastructure that simplifies AI development and deployment. By rethinking the complexities of AI systems, we’re empowering everyone to unlock AI’s full potential and tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

If you’re passionate about shaping the future of AI and creating tools that make a real difference in people’s lives, we want you on our team. You can read about our culture and careers to understand how we work and what we value.

ML developers today face significant friction in taking trained models into deployment. They work in a highly fragmented space, with incomplete and patchwork solutions that require significant performance tuning and non‑generalizable, model‑specific enhancements. At Modular, we are building the next generation AI platform that will radically improve the way developers build and deploy AI models. As part of our mission to build AI’s unified compute layer, we are expanding the Modular software stack to a variety of new and exciting hardware platforms.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Hardware Bringup team  this role, you will own the end‑to‑end delivery of accelerator bring‑up across the Modular stack — from Mojo kernels and the graph compiler to MAX model serving — across multiple concurrent hardware partnerships. This is a hands on management role:
You will work with the HW Bringup architect to set the team roadmap and the technical direction, align stakeholders and ensure all projects are delivered on time. You will participate in design reviews and Pre‑sales discussions. You will be accountable for scoping and delivering against engineering Statements of Work (SOWs) with vendor counterparts, and for growing a high‑trust team that consistently ships against ambitious, externally‑committed milestones.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a 2 to 7 people team of mixed skillset (compiler, kernel, and runtime engineers) focused on bringing up new accelerator architectures across the Modular stack.
• Stay hands‑on: participate directly in design reviews, contribute to architecture and prototypes, write and review code for non‑trivial portions of the stack (Mojo kernels, MLIR passes, runtime integration), and strive to unblock the hardest technical issues on the team.
• Support end‑to‑end delivery of one or more hardware platform enablement efforts, from initial viability and dev‑environment bring‑up through merged compiler integration, kernel development, MAX serving, and production‑quality model deployment.
• Contribute to Statement of Work (SOW) scoping, milestone definition, and acceptance criteria with hardware partners — including translating engineering plans into contractual milestones, negotiating timelines, and managing delivery against commercial commitments.
• Partner with Kernels, Graph Compiler, MAX, and Cloud teams to align roadmaps, resolve cross‑team dependencies, and produce credible FTE plans and forecasts for executive review.
• In collaboration with Head of Mojo, hire to a high bar: define the engineering profile, run interview loops, calibrate the team, and close senior candidates.
• Foster a write‑things‑down, demo‑driven engineering culture; ensure the team shares findings on new architectures (ISAs, memory hierarchies, vendor tool chains) through write‑ups, internal demos, and onsites.

• 7+ years of industry experience in compiler engineering, high‑performance computing, kernel development, or related domains, with 2+ years managing engineers (strong IC‑to‑manager transitions…