Mapbox · 7 hours ago
Engineering Manager, MapGPT
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$207K/yr - $279K/yr
5+ years expMapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. As the Engineering Manager of the MapGPT team, you will lead a high-performing team to integrate natural language understanding into real-world applications, focusing on voice-driven experiences powered by location intelligence.
Business IntelligenceFleet ManagementLogisticsMapping ServicesSaaS
Responsibilities
Deliver complex, high-impact projects while providing technical expertise and mentorship to your team
Operate your team’s day-to-day and be hands-on in project management and sprint planning
Manage operational best practices for on-call and related responsibilities
Empathize with internal and external customers delivering features that address their needs
Manage and develop the team through hiring, retaining, mentoring, and continually building the team’s capabilities
Drive company, product, and team objectives, carrying your team and relevant stakeholders along in the decision-making
Work with Product and Engineering teams to develop the long-term business strategy driving the team’s work
Establish, track, and iterate on operational metrics to ensure the team is delivering products that meet or exceed customer expectations
Determine best engineering practices and promote them within the team and across Mapbox
Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, and data-driven decisions on the team
Qualification
Required
5+ years of people management experience: You have managed remote engineering team(s) (15+ in size) leading to product execution and business outcome while growing and developing a team of engineering talent
Hire & Develop: You understand the importance of hiring the best diverse talent and creating a culture where your team members can learn & grow with the organization
Technical Expertise: You have deep knowledge and experience of building scalable web services in AWS and building applications on top of LLMs
Operational Excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement within your team and personally embody a passion for monitoring, metrics, triage, resolving customer issues, and iterative improvement. You help foster the end to end development of clearly designed interfaces, documentation, thorough test coverage, and effective code reviews
Ownership & Execution: You own the vision, lead the strategy, and guide the team to execute towards building the future of your product
Customer Focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf
Strong written and verbal communication: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience
Preferred
Background in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Linguistics, or related domain or field of study
Experience fine tuning LLMs and/or running self-hosted LLMs
Experience with low latency voice applications
Benefits
Supportive health care
Parental leave
Flexibility for the things that come up in life
Company
Mapbox
Mapbox develops a location data platform for mobile and web applications.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$614.17MKey Investors
SoftBankPremji InvestSoftBank Vision Fund
2023-09-19Series E· $280M
2021-03-01Series Unknown
2020-05-01Series D· $107M
Leadership Team
Peter Sirota
Chief Executive Officer
Scott Hill
Chief Financial Officer
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