[Hiring] Engineering Manager @OPSWAT

Role Description

You'll build and lead the small founding team — engineers and data scientists — behind something genuinely hard: high-throughput services that inspect live traffic at near-zero latency, and applied ML that runs in the critical path. You're here from person one, which means you don't inherit a culture or a bar — you set them. Who you hire and how they work is the product's first and most important architecture decision.

This is a player-coach role with real surface area. You're close enough to the systems and the models to earn your team's trust, and you own the thing that matters most: whether this team ships, and whether what it ships holds up in production. Small team, huge leverage, nowhere to hide — in the best way.

AI-native leadership. Non-negotiable.

You don't just use AI yourself — you build, hire, and coach a team that operates at 10x with it, and you hold that bar. Demonstrable AI proficiency is a hard requirement.

Qualifications

• Proven, demonstrable AI-native leadership.
• 8-10+ years in engineering, including real-time leading teams that shipped and operated production systems.
• Genuine technical depth — experience in building and guiding hard calls in systems, ML, or both.
• A track record of hiring and growing high-performing engineers and data scientists.
• The ability to own delivery of an ambiguous, high-stakes charter end to end without trading away quality.

Requirements

• You lead from the front — hands-on enough that strong engineers respect your judgment.
• You hire relentlessly and hold a high bar, preferring to leave a seat open than fill it with "good enough."
• You grow people — turning strong individual contributors into force multipliers.
• You own the result, not the excuse — taking responsibility for delivery and creating clarity where there was ambiguity.
• "Good enough" makes you uncomfortable, for the product and for the team you're building.

Company Description

OPSWAT is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment where equal employment opportunities are extended to all employees and applicants, free of discrimination and harassment of any type. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, job requirements, and business needs without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Recruiting Agencies: we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third party agencies for any of our open positions. To submit resumes for our jobs, there must be a recruiting contract approved by our legal team and endorsed by both parties. We are currently not accepting additional 3rd party agencies at this time.