Join HumanSignal as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team in building AI products through real-world data. Shape delivery, improve team dynamics, and maintain hands-on coding involvement.
About HumanSignal
Real-world data is the competitive edge in AI. HumanSignal is a human data partner for companies building AI models and products. Our customers ship better AI, faster, because we partner with their researchers from real-world data creation to annotation to delivery. We design and create datasets from scratch, recruit and manage the domain experts who evaluate model output, and run everything through our own platform, Label Studio, the open-source standard for data labeling and evaluation, used by over 1 million practitioners worldwide. We specialize in the operationally complex: real-world data collection, multimodal pipelines, and multi-step workflows. Advanced ML and AI teams use our enterprise platform to run their own data factories, and our services team to extend their reach where in-house capacity runs out. If you want to do work that materially shapes how the next generation of AI products gets built, we'd love to talk.
What you’ll own
- Delivery: Planning, scoping, and shipping quality software against a roadmap you help shape. You make tradeoffs explicit and push back when we’re asking the team to do more than it can do well.
- How the team works: Enough structure to make delivery predictable, not so much that it slows a small team down. You remove friction, address recurring blockers, and improve how we use AI tooling.
- People: Hiring, clear expectations, regular feedback, growth, promotions, and exits when they’re necessary.
- Technical judgment: Staying close enough to the code and architecture to challenge decisions and support engineers without becoming the approval gate for everything.
- The engineering response to escalations: Getting the right people involved, making priority calls, and addressing recurring causes across customer, services-team, and open-source issues. You’re accountable for the response, not expected to personally fix every problem.
Requirements
- Experience in managing engineering teams.
- Strong technical background with hands-on coding experience.
- Ability to challenge architectural decisions and support engineers.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
What we’re building
- A ground-up rebuild of the annotation editor.