Engineering Manager AI

Location Requirement: This role is open to candidates located in British Columbia or Ontario, Canada. At this time, we are only able to hire employees residing in these provinces. This is Engineering at Cobalt Streamworks Cobalt Streamworks's Engineering team is dedicated to building cutting-edge solutions that empower people and organizations to thrive. As AI becomes fundamental to every product experience, ensuring those systems are trustworthy, measurable, and continuously improving is one of the company's most important engineering challenges. The AI Intelligence Quality (IQ) team owns that challenge. We build the AI Platform that enables every AI team at Cobalt Streamworks to measure quality, detect regressions, run experiments, and continuously improve AI performance with confidence. The platform you lead won't power a single product—it will shape the quality of every AI experience we deliver, becoming a foundational capability for how AI is built at Cobalt Streamworks. What You Will Do Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of AI and software engineers, developing them into strong technical leaders while fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous learning. Own the execution and delivery of the AI Platform roadmap, balancing near-term product impact with long-term platform investments. Partner closely with Product, Applied AI, Data Science, and engineering leaders to define how AI quality is measured, evaluated, and continuously improved across Cobalt Streamworks. Lead the development of AI evaluation infrastructure, quality metrics, experimentation capabilities, observability, and developer tooling that enable every AI product team to confidently build, evaluate, and ship AI experiences. Drive technical and organizational decisions that improve the scalability, reliability, and adoption of the AI Platform, empowering engineers to own architecture and technical solutions. Build strong cross-functional partnerships and influence engineering strategy to establish AI evaluations as a foundational capability that accelerates AI development across Cobalt Streamworks. What You Will Bring to the Table Experience leading and growing high-performing software engineering teams, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers into strong technical leaders. Strong technical background leading teams that build AI infrastructure, AI-powered products leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and/or AI agents, distributed systems, or developer platforms. You are a highly technical engineering leader who leads by example—contributing to architecture, design reviews, and code reviews, diving into implementation details when needed, and raising the technical bar across the team. Experience building enterprise SaaS AI products where quality, trust, reliability, and scalability are critical to customer success. Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution, partnering effectively with Product, Applied AI, Data Science, and Engineering to deliver business impact. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to create clarity, align teams, and influence technical direction in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. A strong product and platform mindset, balancing customer impact, engineering velocity, operational excellence, and long-term technical investments. A leadership style grounded in curiosity, humility, ownership, and continuous learning, with a passion for building exceptional engineering teams and delivering high-quality AI products. Nice to Have Experience building AI evaluation frameworks, experimentation platforms, or ML infrastructure. Knowledge of statistical experimentation, A/B model testing, offline evaluations, or model benchmarking. Familiarity with advanced AI optimization techniques such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), model fine-tuning, or preference learning. Experience building internal platforms and services adopted across multiple engineering teams. #LI-remote The estimated annual cash salary for this role is CAD $146,250 - CAD $195,000. This position is also eligible for incentive stock options, subject to the terms of Cobalt Streamworks’s applicable plans. Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Medical insurance; Dental insurance; Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance; Natural Disaster Support Program; Wellness Apps; Paid Parental Leave, Paid Time off inclusive of holidays and sick time; Working Remotely Stipend; One time WFH Office Set-Up Stipend; Retirement Plan; Financial Planning; and Learning & Development Budget. Note on Pay Transparency: Cobalt Streamworks provides an estimate of the compensation for roles that may be hired as required by regulations. Compensation may vary based on (a) location, as Cobalt Streamworks factors in specific location when benchmarking compensation for most roles; (b) individual candidate skills and qualifications; and (c) individual candidate experience. Additionally, Cobalt Streamworks leverages current market data to determine compensation, so posted compensation figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cobalt Streamworks reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law. Cobalt Streamworks welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process. About Cobalt Streamworks Cobalt Streamworks is on a mission to build cultures where employees and their companies thrive. In an age where employees have more choices than ever before, businesses that put employees first are winning 🏅– and Cobalt Streamworks is building the tools to empower those people-centric companies. Cobalt Streamworks is a people success platform that offers performance reviews, employee engagement surveys, real-time feedback, weekly check-ins, goal setting, and career planning in a way that allows companies to focus on employee development, growth, and engagement – yielding stronger employee retention, performance, and impact to the bottom line 📈. Since launching in 2016, we have grown to over 5,000+ customers globally, including brands like Loom, Robinhood, and Gusto. Cobalt Streamworks is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Cobalt Streamworks is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. By clicking the "Submit Application" button below, you consent to Cobalt Streamworks processing your personal information for the purpose of assessing your candidacy for this position in accordance with Cobalt Streamworks's Job Applicant Privacy Policy .