Senior Engineering Manager
Company: Ciklum
Role summary
Senior Engineering Manager is a full-time role at Ciklum (remote). Posted 2026-10-19. Experience level: 10+.
- Job title
- Senior Engineering Manager
- Company
- Ciklum
- Location
- Remote
- Work arrangement
- remote
- Employment type
- full-time
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 10+
- Date posted
- 2026-10-19
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a team as a Senior Engineering Manager at a company that redefines industries with technology. You'll work with a global team on complex challenges for both large organizations and startups, and the role is fully remote in India.
Job description
Ciklum is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join our team full-time in India.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
About the role:
As a Senior Engineering Manager, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Senior Engineering Manager to lead a greenfield build of our agentic AI systems — autonomous, multi-step workflows where AI agents plan, use tools, and act with minimal human intervention. You'll own technical direction, team growth, and delivery for a group of 10–15 engineers working at the intersection of LLMs, orchestration, and production infrastructure, building this platform from the ground up.
Responsibilities:
Lead and grow a team of AI & Forward Deployed Engineers building agent orchestration, tool-use frameworks, and evaluation pipelines from zero
Set technical strategy for agent architecture: planning loops, memory, tool calling, multi-agent coordination, and guardrails
Drive the implementation of an AIDLC (AI-Driven Development Lifecycle) approach, replacing traditional PDLC/SDLC practices across the org
Own the Observability and Evals strategy for agentic systems — tracing, monitoring, and eval frameworks for non-deterministic, multi-step workflows
Partner with product managers to translate ambiguous problems into shippable agentic features
Own reliability and safety practices for autonomous systems (evals, sandboxing, human-in-the- loop checkpoints, rollback strategies)
Drive hiring, mentorship, and career growth for your team
Balance hands-on technical involvement (architecture reviews, code reviews) with people management
Report on team velocity, system performance, and risk to leadership
Sketch out engineering estimations
Requirements:
12+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years managing engineering teams
Direct experience building or operating LLM-powered systems (agents, RAG, tool-calling, orchestration frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, or custom stacks)
Proven track record of delivering an AIDLC implementation that successfully replaced PDLC/SDLC within an engineering organisation
Cloud: AWS — excellent knowledge with Bedrock AgentCore, Step Functions (ASL), and related agent-hosting/orchestration services
Strong knowledge of Harness engineering
Strong experience with Observability and Evals for non-deterministic systems (tracing, eval harnesses, monitoring, drift/regression detection)
Backend services: experience with Python and FastAPI
Frontend: working knowledge of React, Tailwind, and Solstice (JLL design system)
Track record of shipping ambiguous, fast-moving products under real constraints
Excellent communicator who can translate technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders
What’s in it for you?
Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations
About us:
At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.
India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.
Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!
Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.
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