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With nearly three decades of industry experience, Irth serves customers across North America and continues to expand its platform with new data-driven and AI-powered capabilities.\nLocation: Remote (US)\nDepartment: Insights (AI/ML)\nReports to: Director of Science and Architecture\nAbout the Role\nIrth is building a new AI-driven threat and risk management platform for pipeline asset integrity. The platform brings together three capabilities that have never previously lived in one place at Irth:\nA governed, cross-product data platform built on Databricks and Azure.\nAn AI-powered ingestion layer that normalizes, repairs, and enriches customer data without services-heavy onboarding.\nA reusable analytical layer that runs industry-standard, Irth-developed, and customer-built risk models against that data.\nWe are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team building this platform.\nYou will own delivery and technical execution across a small, senior team spanning data architecture, data engineering, data science, application engineering, and QA. You will be accountable for what the team ships against a phased, gated delivery plan.\nThis is a player-coach role. You will spend a meaningful portion of each week in the codebase, reviewing designs, and participating in code reviews. We are not looking for someone who manages from a distance. We are looking for an experienced engineer who has grown into leading people and wants to continue doing both.\nThe work is highly regulated. Pipeline operators use these outputs to determine where to dig, what to repair, and how to justify that spending to regulators. Every calculation therefore needs to be traceable, reproducible, and defensible under audit.\nIf you enjoy solving problems where correctness genuinely matters, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Delivery Ownership - Primary Responsibility\nOwn delivery and technical execution against the phase plan, including scope commitments, sequencing, dependencies, and release readiness at each gate.\nRun the team's operating rhythm, including sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives, with clear visibility into blockers and schedule risk.\nTranslate product requirements into technical workstreams and break them into achievable increments.\nHold the line on scope when delivery plans are at risk.\nManage team capacity and velocity across parallel workstreams spanning the data platform, ingestion layer, and analytical layer.\nEscalate risks early and with a clear recommendation; surface milestone risk to leadership before it becomes a missed gate.\n2. Hands-On Engineering\nContribute directly to the codebase, particularly on foundational and high-risk components where experienced engineering involvement can materially improve outcomes.\nReview pull requests, design documents, and architecture decision records.\nEstablish and maintain a high standard for engineering quality and technical decision-making.\nPrototype and de-risk unproven approaches, including agentic ingestion workflows and model execution patterns, before the team commits to them.\nDebug production issues alongside the team rather than delegating them.\n3. Technical Direction & Engineering Quality\nPartner with the Data Architect to establish and enforce standards for data modeling, lineage, governance, and platform patterns.\nOwn engineering quality, including test coverage, CI/CD discipline, environment promotion, observability, and the definition of done.\nMake and document build-versus-buy and tooling decisions, including evaluation of third-party ingestion and AI tooling.\nBalance delivery pressure against technical debt and make those tradeoffs explicit.\n4. Compliance, Security & Audit Readiness\nEnsure risk calculations, data transformations, and model outputs are traceable and reproducible to a standard that can withstand regulatory audit.\nHold the team accountable to platform security requirements, including access control, tenant isolation, secrets management, and SOC 2-aligned controls.\nPlan and schedule production-readiness activities, including load testing, penetration testing, and access-control reviews ahead of each release milestone.\n5. People Leadership & Hiring\nRecruit, onboard, and develop a distributed team of mid-level and senior engineers.\nConduct regular one-on-ones, set clear expectations, provide direct feedback, and own performance management and career development.\nBuild a team culture in which engineers challenge one another's designs and disagree productively.\nFoster an environment of technical ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.\n6. Cross-Functional Partnership\nPartner daily with Product on requirements, sequencing, priorities, and scope tradeoffs.\nWork with the Project Management Office on plan integrity, dependency tracking, and gate-readiness reporting.\nSupport customer-facing teams during pilots and previews, including technical discovery and issue triage.\nCollaborate with domain subject-matter experts to ensure model behavior remains aligned with regulatory expectations.\nRequirements\nQualifications\nRequired\n8+ years of professional software or data engineering experience, including 2+ years of formally managing engineers.\nA track record of remaining hands-on as a manager, with recent and demonstrable individual contributions to production systems.\nExperience delivering data-intensive or ML-backed products end to end, from architecture through production operation.\nWorking knowledge of modern cloud data platforms; Databricks and Azure experience strongly preferred, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and workflow orchestration.\nStrong Python and SQL skills, with the ability to read, review, and write production code across the team's technology stack.\nExperience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, environment promotion, and release management.\nDemonstrated ability to run a phased delivery plan with hard external commitments and communicate status honestly and effectively to executives.\nExperience hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers in a distributed or fully remote environment.\nStrong written communication skills, with the ability to author design documents, architecture decision records, and clear status narratives.\nPreferred\nExperience leading teams that build regulated, audit-defensible software where outputs are subject to external review.\nFamiliarity with MLOps practices, including model registries, versioning, deployment, monitoring, and retraining pipelines.\nExperience with geospatial data and GIS-driven analytics.\nExposure to agentic AI or LLM-based document extraction in production environments, beyond prototypes.\nExperience integrating third-party or customer-supplied models into a governed execution framework.\nBackground in multi-tenant SaaS, including per-tenant isolation and data residency requirements.\nExperience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot and/or agentic coding tools such as Claude Code as part of a professional development workflow, along with a thoughtful perspective on responsible adoption across an engineering team.\nNice to Have\nUnderstanding of pipeline integrity management concepts, including inline inspection, corrosion and crack growth, consequence modeling, and risk-based prioritization.\nFamiliarity with PHMSA 49 CFR 192, ASME B31.8S, or comparable regulatory frameworks.\nPrior experience in energy, utilities, or critical infrastructure software.\nExperience standing up a new team on a new platform rather than inheriting a mature engineering organization.\nSuccess Metrics\nSuccess in this role will be measured by:\nOn-time delivery: Phase commitments are delivered on schedule, with gate criteria met and supporting evidence produced.\nHigh-performing team: A strong engineering team is hired, onboarded, developed, and retained, with clear ownership across the platform.\nHands-on technical contribution: Sustained personal contribution through code, code reviews, design work, and other visible technical artifacts in the repository.\nAudit-ready platform: Outputs are reproducible and defensible, with no material findings in security or compliance reviews.\nPredictable execution: Forecasts are accurate, risks are escalated early, and gate reviews have few surprises.\nCross-functional effectiveness: Strong working relationships are maintained with Product, the Project Management Office, customer-facing teams, and domain subject-matter experts.\nBenefits\nWhat We Offer\nJoin a dynamic, growing company with a strong reputation in its 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