Job Title: Engineering Manager

About Assembly Industries

Talent is distributed but Opportunities are not — Assembly Industries is breaking that pattern by building an AI-enabled talent platform that connects top-tier, highly skilled global professionals with innovative companies across the US. As a fast-growing startup, we are laser-focused on impactful growth, agile strategies, and exceptional results.

Role Overview

We’re hiring an Agentic Automations Engineering Manager — a hybrid player-coach who leads engineering delivery across client-facing automation projects while also building and scaling our engineering team.

This is not a back-office management role. You’ll operate at the intersection of project delivery and talent building, ensuring technical excellence on live client engagements while recruiting and mentoring top-tier engineers and technical product managers.

You’ll partner closely with our CTO, architects, and lead engineers to ensure our delivery teams ship scalable, production-grade automation systems. At the same time, you’ll help grow the function by driving hiring, onboarding, and team development as Assembly scales in response to client demand.

What You’ll Do

• Own engineering delivery across multiple automation/AI implementation projects, ensuring scope, quality, and timelines are met
   
• Act as a technical escalation point for engineers and TPMs, resolving blockers and integration challenges
   
• Partner with TPMs, execution leads, and solutions consultants to align engineering feasibility with client needs
   
• Manage and mentor a growing team of AI-focused engineers, providing technical oversight on code quality, APIs, and architecture decisions
   
• Build internal engineering playbooks, reusable modules, and delivery best practices for agentic/automation systems
   
• Drive recruitment of technical talent (engineers, TPMs, AI systems builders), designing pipelines that prioritize curiosity and agency
   
• Lead onboarding and team integration to ensure new hires ramp quickly into our systems and standards
   
• Stay current on trends in agent systems, orchestration frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI), and prompt engineering patterns (CoT, ReAct, ToT)
   
• Collaborate with technical leadership to align delivery with our opinionated architectural stack
   

Required Experience

• 6+ years in backend software engineering, automation systems, or AI-enabled infrastructure delivery
   
• 2+ years in engineering leadership or technical lead roles
   
• Proven ability to drive project delivery across multiple stakeholders without compromising quality
   
• Strong backend engineering foundation (Java preferred) with experience in microservices, APIs, and task orchestration
   
• Familiarity with NoSQL/document databases and distributed systems
   
• Competence with Python for prototyping and LLM integration
   
• Awareness of LLM system design (prompt chaining, RAG pipelines, orchestration)
   
• Experience recruiting and scaling high-performing technical teams in fast-paced environments
   
• Ability to coach engineers on architecture, code quality, and growth without micromanagement
   

Bonus Points

• Hands-on experience building or deploying agentic/LLM-based workflows in production
   
• Familiarity with enterprise deployment strategies for automation systems
   
• Experience in consulting, technical services, or AI-native delivery organizations
   

You Might Be a Fit If You

• Love bridging the gap between engineering rigor and fast-moving client delivery
   
• Thrive in high-agency environments where you drive clarity and unblock execution
   
• Are equally motivated by solving technical problems and building strong teams
   
• Balance big-picture technical awareness with hands-on coaching and delivery oversight
   

This is a remote position open to candidates based in Argentina.

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