Airtable · 3 days ago
Engineering Manager, AI Platform
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$240K/yr - $340K/yr
5+ years expAirtable is a no-code app platform that empowers organizations to enhance their business processes. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the AI Platform pod, responsible for building foundational infrastructure and systems that support AI experiences across the company.
DatabaseDeveloper ToolsSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Build the AI platform foundation: Own the core agent architecture, orchestration layer, and runtime that powers all AI experiences across Airtable—ensuring it's extensible, reliable, and can scale to support diverse use cases across multiple teams
Design for platform scale: Create robust abstractions and APIs that enable other teams to build AI-powered features quickly and safely, while maintaining quality and consistency across the product
Establish AI reliability systems: Build comprehensive evaluation frameworks, monitoring, and quality assurance systems that ensure AI features meet enterprise-grade standards for accuracy, performance, and safety
Drive technical strategy: Partner with Staff+ engineers to define the technical roadmap for Airtable's AI infrastructure, making architectural decisions that will shape how we build with AI for years to come
Enable AI democratization: Build platform capabilities that make sophisticated AI accessible to all Airtable users—from semantic search and natural language interfaces to intelligent automation—without requiring technical expertise
Qualification
Required
5+ years experience as an engineer (previously in a staff or TL level IC position)
1+ years as a manager
Experience building infrastructure that other teams depend on
Ability to dive deep into architectural decisions while keeping sight of the broader platform vision
Experience working on ML platforms, agent frameworks, or AI infrastructure at scale
Understanding of the unique challenges of building reliable systems on top of probabilistic models
Belief that quality is ensured through well-designed systems rather than process
Ability to architect for the long term while delivering incremental value
Experience in building platforms through iteration rather than big-bang releases
Benefits
The opportunity to receive benefits
Restricted stock units
Incentive compensation
Comprehensive benefit offerings
Company
Airtable
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.35BKey Investors
XNGreenoaksThrive Capital
2022-07-01Secondary Market
2021-12-13Series F· $735M
2021-03-15Series E· $270M
Leadership Team
Howie Liu
Cofounder, CEO
Andrew Ofstad
Co-founder
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