Engineering Manager, Core Platform

Overview.ai is transforming manufacturing quality control with an edge-enabled AI vision system that handles inspection tasks from assembly verification to defect detection and orientation checks, delivering real-time, high-accuracy inspections that integrate into existing production lines. The team owns everything the customer sees and touches, from the frontend application that is the entire user interface of the product to the backend business logic that runs inspections. Taipei is the product engineering hub, and the role works alongside embedded engineering teams and AI/ML teams. This is a hands-on leadership role with high visibility and significant impact on the product and engineering organization.

Responsibilities

Oversee execution of the technical roadmap for core products and manage the team to deliver industrial AI products; Work with product and engineering leadership to turn company priorities into a sequenced plan; Own the release process for components, including sprint cadence, branch and release structure, and test gates in GitHub Actions; Define and build practices for performance and robustness, including memory behavior, startup time, long-run stability, and graceful degradation; Talk to customers directly, triage field issues, and turn recurring problems into product fixes; Set the hiring standard, run the interview loop, and develop engineers on the team

Requirements

Have led software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management, on top of a strong record shipping product-oriented software; Deep experience in one area of the stack (React, Python, Go) and fluent enough in the others to review work in both; Care about reliability in a way that shows up in process rather than in principle, and have chased down failures that only appear after days of continuous runtime; Have built release structure and sprint cadence rather than inherited someone else's; Have real instincts about interfaces and can tell in review when a screen will confuse an operator on a factory floor; Want to work on physical AI; Work in Mandarin and English at a professional level

Nice to have

Experience working on applications and software that runs on edge hardware; Experience working with AI/ML pipelines

Benefits

Competitive salary; Equity; Benefits; Work authorization sponsorship in Taiwan; Support for Employment Gold Card applications for candidates relocating to Taiwan