{"id":729715,"url":"https://alion.io/job/humansignal-senior-engineering-manager","title":"Senior Engineering Manager","company":{"id":678320,"name":"HumanSignal","domain":"humansignal.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/humansignal","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":5,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":29,"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":162000,"max_usd":285000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":289},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Django","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Label Studio","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2022-05-17T22:36:29Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-10","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T20:11:03Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1628,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":1627},"description":"About HumanSignal\nReal-world data is the competitive edge in AI.\nHumanSignal 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.\nWe 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.\nWe 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.\nIf you want to do work that materially shapes how the next generation of AI products gets built, we'd love to talk.\nThe engineers on our team are great. We want to make sure they have a manager who makes them better, and that’s the role.\nWe’re building across an open-source platform, enterprise software, and a managed data-services business that runs on our own product. We need to make delivery more predictable while giving engineers more ownership - not add another layer of approvals. You’ll help shape what we build, the commitments we make, and how the team works.\nYou manage the team directly: 1:1s, feedback, performance, promotions, and the hard conversations. You own delivery so that what we decide to build turns into shipped software on a rhythm we can count on. You notice when someone is blocked and help them get unstuck without making yourself the dependency for every decision. When someone is struggling, you address it early.\nThe part of this role we care about most is helping people become better professionals: better at scoping, estimating, making decisions, and owning outcomes rather than tasks. If your instinct when an engineer struggles is to take the work back, this isn’t the role. If your instinct is to figure out what they’re missing and help them develop it, keep reading.\nYou still write and ship code. Not because we need another full-time individual contributor, but because I don’t believe you can effectively manage this team if you’ve stopped building. You stay hands-on to make better technical decisions, work through difficult problems, and improve how the team builds. Your job is not to become the team’s busiest engineer or the person every release depends on.\nYou use coding agents in real work and understand where they help, where they fail, and how to verify their output. You make the team better by showing what works and helping people apply it - not by mandating tools or mistaking more generated code for better engineering. You can challenge architectural decisions, explain the tradeoffs, and help the team choose an approach it can ship and maintain.\nWhat you’ll own\nDelivery: 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.\nHow 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.\nPeople: Hiring, clear expectations, regular feedback, growth, promotions, and exits when they’re necessary.\nTechnical judgment: Staying close enough to the code and architecture to challenge decisions and support engineers without becoming the approval gate for everything.\nThe 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.\nWhat we’re building\nA ground-up rebuild of the annotation editor, with interfaces generated by coding agents instead of hand-configured.\nNative evaluation of agent trajectories: trace ingestion, replay, and hybrid human-plus-model-judge workflows.\nContinuous calibration: treating automated evaluators as instruments that can drift and need ongoing checks against human ground truth.\nThe workforce platform behind our managed services business.\nQuality analytics across annotators, models, and programs.\nOur own services team uses the platform to deliver customer work. You’ll see directly where the software helps, where it falls short, and which problems keep coming back. Part of the opportunity is turning that experience into better products, not just a growing list of one-off customer fixes.\nStack: Python/Django, TypeScript/React, Postgres, Kubernetes. Coding agents are part of how we work every day.\nWhat success looks like\nEngineers take greater ownership and need less intervention. Scope and delivery risks surface early, rather than at the deadline. Customer commitments and product priorities are reconciled before they become emergencies. Recurring escalations lead to lasting fixes.\nThe team ships more reliably, people are getting better at their work, and neither depends on you repeatedly stepping in to rescue a release.\nWho we’re looking for\nYou’ve managed engineers for at least a couple of years. You’ve hired and developed people, addressed underperformance directly, and made difficult people decisions when necessary.\nBefore that, you were a strong engineer for long enough to develop sound technical judgment. You can reason about architecture and tradeoffs beyond your own code.\nYou still build software and enjoy it. You use coding agents seriously and can explain, with examples, what effective use looks like.\nYou’ve shipped at a startup and know how to make decisions with incomplete information.\nYou say what you think early, give specific feedback, and don’t manage by avoidance.\nYou can balance long-term product work with customer deadlines, negotiate realistic commitments, and recognize when a services request should become a product capability, and when it shouldn’t.\nNice to have: experience with ML tooling, data platforms, or evaluation systems; experience managing a distributed team; frontend architecture depth.\nHow to apply\nSkip the form. Email me directly at  with examples of your best work. That can be code you’ve written, a system you designed, a team you built, a document that changed a decision, or a product you shipped. I want to see what you’re proud of and hear why.\nYou don’t need a public portfolio, and please don’t share proprietary material. A description of the problem, your contribution, and the outcome is enough. A short note on what draws you to HumanSignal specifically helps too.\nI read everything that comes in. If it’s a fit, I’ll reach out.\nAbout HumanSignal\nWe build the infrastructure that turns expert human judgment into reliable signal for AI systems. Label Studio, our open-source platform, is used by 250,000+ people across 60,000+ organizations. 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