Software Engineering Manager, Agentic AI

This role is located in Somerville, MA - We are a hybrid work environment and are in the office 3+ days/per week.

Tulip, the leader in AI-native frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with composable, connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulip’s cloud-native, no-code platform, powered by embedded AI, is driving the digital transformation of industrial environments through composable, human-centric solutions that go beyond disrupting the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) category.

A spinoff out of MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany, Hungary, Singapore, Israel and Japan. Tulip has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast award winner, one of Energage’s Top Workplaces USA, and one of Built In Boston’s “Best Places to Work” and “Best Midsize Places to Work.”About the Team:
The team is responsible for a new agent-native canvas based authoring and administration experience that maps customer production systems — its apps, data, automations, and the context around them — an effort that will redefine how customers compose, deploy, and operate apps on our platform. The team also handles the asset import/export experience across the product, enterprise governance features, and integration with Tulip Library.

About You You bring high levels of technical acumen and people management skills, years of building and delivering SaaS products, and you’re energized by the chance to build at the edge of what AI models can do. You have strong opinions about agent architectures, context management, and building scalable systems, and you’re passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them grow.  You’re a collaborative, motivated self-starter who leads from the front, brings your authentic self to work, and wants to help shape how this team operates as a reference point for AI-driven development across the broader engineering org.

You have strong product-engineering instincts — you can prototype quickly, prune scope, and decide what to ship versus what to throw away.

What skills do I need?7+ years experience in software engineering, with experience building and scaling large SaaS products and complex distributed systems3+ years of people management experience leading a software development team, with hands-on technical leadership, architecting solutions, and staying close to the code Experience building and scaling AI systems in production, including, agent orchestration and context management, retrieval pipelines and vector stores, tool invocation and MCPsExperience designing and running evaluations for agentic systems — defining success criteria, building task suites, and measuring reliability across multi-step tool use Expertise in contemporary tech stacks including React, Node.js,

MongoDB, and Postgres, with experience deploying in multi-cloud and multi-tenant environments

Active use of AI tooling in your own practice, with a point of view on how it changes the way teams build

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience

Key Responsibilities Own the technical architecture and delivery of Tulip’s new agent-native app-building product.

Hire, mentor, and grow a team of 3-5 engineers capable of operating with high autonomy and quality from day one.

Establish engineering standards: testing, observability, and AI-driven development practices for the team.

Partner with Infrastructure and other Engineering teams to evolve Tulip’s API surface and runtime so agents have what they need without compromising the existing platform.

Collaborate deeply with product,…