Agent Engineering Manager - San Francisco - Tolan

    Tolan
    Tolan San Francisco

    1 day ago

    Description

    Tolan is an Embodied Companion: a cute, friendly AI alien that you talk with naturally, like a friend. They have unique preferences and personalities, and over time they form memories about you, your friendship, and your life. Tolan is built by an experienced team with a lot of history together. We previously founded Even, acquired for $300m in 2022. Our engineering team comes from places like Apple, Square, and Our design and creative team has won Apple Design Awards and designed products like Facebook and Dropbox. Our investors include the designers and founders behind products like Instagram, Retro, Behance, Vimeo and Notion. We love to work hard, with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. We work together in-person in downtown SF.
    A note on this role
    This is a role we're creating for the first time as of January 2026. Over the past 3 months we've observed a step-function change in the reliability and capabilities of long-running AI agents. We've re-oriented our own work around this new reality, and our most effective engineers now spend more time orchestrating agents than writing code directly. We believe our hiring should re-orient as well. This new role is our first attempt to find people who thrive in this new mode of working.
    We're certainly not the only people adjusting to this new reality-Karpathy's recent thoughts resonate with what we've been experiencing.
    The role
    This isn't a management position-you won't have direct reports. But you'll need every skill that made you a great engineering manager. You'll break down ambiguous problems, delegate to agents, review their work critically, and course-correct when things go sideways. You'll design and operate complex agent orchestration systems, develop patterns for human-agent collaboration, and ship real product features primarily through agent-assisted development.
    You might be a fit if you:

    • Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent in engineering management or tech lead roles
    • Know how to delegate, scope work, and give feedback that actually improves output-skills you've honed managing people
    • Have hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agent orchestration
    • Have strong opinions on when to use agents vs. when to do it yourself
    • Thrive in ambiguity and have a knack for turning fuzzy goals into concrete, well-scoped tasks
    • Genuinely enjoy the "managing agents" workflow
    Bonus points if you:
    • Have built or contributed to agent orchestration tooling
    • Have written publicly about AI-assisted development workflows
    • Have experience with long-running, multi-step agent systems
    • Left management because you missed building, but still miss the parts of management that were about clarity and leverage
    Why Tolan

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager/Senior Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    Binti builds software for state and county government agencies, focusing on reinventing social services. We started in child welfare, with the mission of helping every child have a safe, loving, and stable family. · ...

    San Francisco Full time

    1 month ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager/Senior Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    Binti builds software for state and county government agencies with the mission of helping every child have a safe loving and stable family. · Demonstrated success in leading and managing engineering teams to high performance ideally in a SaaS or tech start-up environment with at ...

    San Francisco, CA

    1 month ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager/Senior Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    Binti builds software for state and county government agencies, focusing on reinventing social services. We started in child welfare, with the mission of helping every child have a safe, loving, and stable family. To date, we've helped approve more than 100,000 families to foster ...

    San Francisco, CA

    14 hours ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    A venture-backed, early-stage developer tooling company is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager to operate at the intersection of customers, product, and engineering. · ...

    San Francisco

    1 month ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    We re looking for a hands on Engineering Manager to lead our product engineering team and help build the next generation of products that will serve psychiatric providers and their patients. · Come shape the future of mental health at Osmind. · ...

    San Francisco

    3 weeks ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    We are looking for an Engineering Manager to help lead our growing Engineering team. You'll manage and mentor a small team while staying hands-on with architecture and technical strategy. · ...

    San Francisco, CA $140,000 - $230,000 (USD) per year

    2 weeks ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    A leading global facilities management provider seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to oversee engineering operations within a hard-services-led environment. · ...

    San Francisco, CA

    1 month ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    We're hiring an Engineering Manager who is a true player-coach. · ...

    San Francisco, CA

    1 month ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our product engineering team and help build the next generation of products that will serve psychiatric providers and their patients. · Come shape the future of mental health at Osmind. · ...

    San Francisco $230,000 - $245,000 (USD)

    3 weeks ago

  • Work in company Remote job

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    We're looking for a pragmatic, senior engineer with significant experience building Ruby on Rails applications. In this Engineering Manager role, you'll maintain an 80/20 split—spending the bulk of your time as a high-impact individual contributor while taking on the responsibili ...

    San Francisco, CA

    2 weeks ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    We're a Bay Area Cyber AI startup · enable all security teams to perform security operations with efficiency and effectiveness needed to prevent breaches . We're a small team of researchers and engineers with deep focus in cyber and AI. · ...

    San Francisco

    1 month ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    We're on a mission to empower builders. · Mintlify is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow a high-performing engineering team as the company scales through rapid growth. · This is a highly technical, player/coach leadership role at the core of Mintlify's product. ...

    San Francisco $260,000 - $300,000 (USD)

    1 month ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    NexHealth's mission is to accelerate innovation in healthcare by connecting patients, providers and developers. We're building the infrastructure layer for modern healthcare. · We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the development of the Sync Core. · This work ...

    San Francisco, California, United States

    3 weeks ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    · About NexHealth · Our healthcare system remains frustratingly analog. When you live in a world of one-tap car rides, instant meal delivery, and unlimited streaming, why do you still have to call to schedule a doctor's appointment and fill out a clipboard in the waiting room? · ...

    San Francisco, California, United States $140,000 - $230,000 (USD) per year

    5 days ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    Pilot's mission is to be the back office for every small business in America and we're hiring an engineering manager to help make this future a reality. · We are giving every SMB the superpowers of a full finance team at a fraction of the cost. · ...

    San Francisco, CA

    1 month ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    We are looking for a detail-oriented, experienced mechanical engineer to join our Product Team as Engineering Manager and drive sustaining engineering and new product development.. · ...

    San Francisco

    1 month ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    · Healthcare is broken at the first step: patients can't find the right care, understand what it costs, or access the medications they need. Mochi Health is fixing this. · We're building an AI-driven marketplace that makes healthcare discoverable—connecting patients to the right ...

    San Francisco, CA $140,000 - $230,000 (USD) per year

    6 days ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI work ...

    San Francisco, CA - US $140,000 - $230,000 (USD) per year

    1 day ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    · Location: San Francisco, CA (Remote/Hybrid Available) · What is Verse?  · Energy markets are more volatile than ever. Rapid electrification and the rise of AI are driving unprecedented demand for power, while energy costs continue to rise across the globe. For the world's larg ...

    San Francisco, CA $140,000 - $230,000 (USD) per year

    1 week ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    Join us in building a better financial system. Wealthfront is continuing to grow and needs managers who are excited to lead talented teams of engineers to improve and expand our products, while maintaining a commitment to high engineering quality standards. · Engineering managers ...

    San Francisco, CA $140,000 - $230,000 (USD) per year

    14 hours ago

  • Work in company

    Engineering Manager

    Only for registered members

    The Remember Me - Consumer team is building Plaid's next generation of direct-to-consumer products. Our mission is to help people feel more confident and secure in managing their financial lives through intuitive, high-trust experiences powered by Plaid's network. · This team is ...

    San Francisco, CA $140,000 - $230,000 (USD) per year

    1 week ago

Jobs
>
San Francisco