Senior Engineering Manager, Applied AI

Canada
Remote
Posted Oct 10, 2026
1 position

$425,000 / year

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Lead · 10+ years
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Location requirements: Country, Ontario, Canada
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

Lead and develop an experienced engineering team while owning technical delivery from customer discovery through deployment and ongoing improvement. Guide architecture and AI implementation, contribute hands-on when needed, and manage hiring, team capacity, delivery priorities, and engineering practices.

Job details

Senior Engineering Manager, Applied AI Location: Canada (100% Remote) Type: Full-Time Comp: $425K CAD Base + Equity + 4% RRSP Matching + Benefits arcadia is partnering with a growing technology company to hire a Senior Engineering Manager focused on delivering AI-powered software for enterprise customers. This role combines technical leadership, people management and customer-facing delivery. You’ll lead experienced engineers tackling complex business problems, help translate emerging AI capabilities into reliable software, and play a meaningful role in growing the engineering team. We’re looking for someone who stays close to the work: comfortable contributing code, making architecture decisions and helping a team move forward when requirements are unclear. The Opportunity Lead and develop a team of experienced engineers, providing clear direction, regular feedback and meaningful career development. Take ownership of technical delivery, from understanding customer needs through deployment and ongoing improvement. Contribute hands-on where needed, including development, design reviews and troubleshooting. Help customers and internal stakeholders turn broad objectives into practical engineering priorities. Guide decisions across backend architecture, integrations, data workflows and AI-enabled functionality. Build effective approaches to testing, evaluation and reviewing AI-generated code. Hire strong engineers and develop team members into technical leaders. Manage team capacity and delivery priorities as customer needs evolve. Improve shared tooling and engineering practices so teams can build more efficiently. What You Bring 8+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years managing engineering teams. Experience hiring, coaching and developing Senior and Staff-level engineers. Strong software engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data and cloud infrastructure. Hands-on Python skills and the ability to engage deeply in technical decisions. Experience taking software from an early concept into production. Confidence working directly with customers, managing expectations and explaining technical trade-offs. Practical familiarity with LLM-powered applications, agent workflows and evaluating system quality. Experience using AI development tools with clear standards for code quality and human review. Sound judgment in environments where priorities and requirements can change. Why Join Significant ownership over your team, technical decisions and hiring. A mix of hands-on engineering and people leadership. Varied technical challenges with direct visibility into customer outcomes. An environment that values autonomy, collaboration and sustainable working practices. Competitive compensation, equity and fully remote work across Canada.

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Requirements

Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineering teams, with experience hiring and developing Senior- and Staff-level engineers. Candidates should bring strong backend, API, data, and cloud fundamentals; hands-on Python skills; customer-facing delivery experience; and practical familiarity with LLM applications, agent workflows, AI evaluation, and human review of AI-generated code.