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title: 'Empirical - Engineering Manager at Empirical'
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# Empirical - Engineering Manager at Empirical

- **Company:** Empirical
- **Location:** Latin America
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/empirical/bc84028f-62d9-41ad-b146-50a2f3e073cf

## Job description

IMPORTANT: ONLY CONSIDERING CANDIDATES LOCATED IN LATIN AMERICA. PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE OF LATAM.

## ABOUT EMPIRICAL

Empirical empowers early and growth-stage tech companies to create the right products in the right way by providing two pivotal services:

Product & Technology Leadership: Our clients entrust critical decisions to our network of top-tier US-based CTOs and CPOs. We provide fractional, project-based, or advisory support, combining highly experienced talent with a flexible approach.

Product Development Teams: We provide our clients with high-performing, senior product development talent through a scalable staff augmentation model. We focus on Latin America to find exceptional talent with time zone and cultural compatibility.

We're proud to be a people-first company where meaningful, long-lasting human connections come first, across both clients and internal teams. Our foundation is rooted in diversity, empathy, and talent. That's how we help create great products people love.

## OUR VALUES

- Care about people first
- Strive to add value always
- Lead with integrity
- Have fun every step of the way

## THE OPPORTUNITY

We're looking for a full-time Engineering Manager to join Empirical and help lead our distributed contractor network, support our clients as a technical partner, and champion AI-driven innovation across the organization.

Unlike traditional Engineering Manager roles tied to a single team or product, this position spans across all our staff augmentation efforts. You'll work at the intersection of client delivery, technical hiring, contractor success, and business development — ensuring that each engineer Empirical places is set up for success and every client has a trusted, strategic technical point of contact.

## YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

1. OPERATIONAL & CLIENT SUPPORT

- Help optimize team delivery and client engagement across multiple projects
- Serve as the technical point of contact for clients post-hiring, joining regular check-ins to track engineering progress, identify new needs, and align on technical expectations
- Understand each client's product, stack, roadmap, and delivery context, and help ensure Empirical contractors are set up to contribute effectively
- Maintain regular 1:1s or check-ins with contractors assigned to client projects to ensure satisfaction, alignment, and address any challenges
- Act as a bridge between contractors and clients, solving for mismatches in expectations or performance, and advocating for growth opportunities when appropriate
- Coach and mentor engineers on adopting Gen AI tools into their day-to-day workflows —

leading by example and helping the team work smarter, faster, and more effectively through

AI

1. SUPPORT TALENT ACQUISITION

- Collaborate with our hiring team and clients to define hiring needs and ideal profiles
- Lead technical interview strategy and participate in candidate evaluations
- Lead and mentor our network of technical interviewers to ensure quality and consistency in

evaluations

- Leverage AI tools and develop automation to make hiring processes more efficient — from sourcing and screening to assessments and structured feedback
- Continually improve our technical hiring processes with data-driven insights and scalable

tooling

1. TECHNICAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

- Partner with leadership during new project and client discovery to assess technical fit, scope complexity, and staffing needs
- Lead or contribute to the planning, estimation, and proposal process for new opportunity — developing POCs, technical artifacts, and scoping documents that help Empirical win and onboard new clients and projects
- Support smooth project onboarding by translating client context into clear technical briefs and ramp-up plans for incoming contractors
- Identify opportunities to expand engagements with existing clients based on evolving product and technical needs
- Represent Empirical's technical credibility and expertise throughout the sales and onboarding cycle

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering
- Experience leading teams as Tech Lead or Engineering Manager, including mentoring engineers and supporting their professional growth
- Strong expertise in JavaScript, Node, Python, and related frameworks
- Proven background in scalable software architecture and cloud infrastructure
- Experience managing client relationships and leading technical discovery sessions
- Experience designing and leading technical hiring processes, including technical interviews, assessments, and onboarding workflows
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills, as all our clients are US-based
- Passionate and hands-on experience with Gen AI tools and their real-world application
- Track record of speaking at meetups, sharing knowledge, or contributing to tech

communities

## WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU

- Deep alignment with our values: care for people, act with integrity, and seek to add value in every interaction
- A collaborative mindset with the confidence to work independently and make decisions
- Empathy and clarity in communication: with clients, engineers, and internal teammates
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities across multiple projects
- A passion for building strong engineering cultures, not just writing great code
- A mindset of thoughtful action, creative problem-solving, and continuous improvement
- A sense of curiosity, joy, and ownership in your work — we believe building great teams should also be fun

## WHAT WE OFFER

- Remote and flexible work
- Competitive USD compensation
- Access to a community of top-tier LATAM engineers and global leaders
- Opportunities for paid training and mentorship
- Paid referrals program

## About Empirical

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Empirical is a people-first, AI-enabled product development partner that helps tech companies build software products through nearshore team augmentation, end-to-end development, and strategic consulting.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: La Jolla, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Niv Carmi (Co-Founder & Co-CEO) and Sebastian Pereyro (Co-Founder, Co-CEO & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Product Development
- **Target customers**: B2B; innovative technology companies and established businesses needing to scale product development capacity, improve team performance, or build new software products
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "People-first at our core, AI-driven by design — we help tech companies build products that people love." [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Nearshore AI-Enabled Team Augmentation**: Scale teams with high-performing Latin American talent (engineers, designers, specialists) who integrate seamlessly with client workflows, leveraging AI-enabled development tools and processes. [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/)
- **End-to-End Product Development**: Full-cycle software product creation from concept to launch, combining product strategy, UX/UI design, engineering, and QA with AI practices to accelerate development. [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/)
- **AI Strategy & Implementation Consulting**: Helps clients identify where AI can drive value in product, operations, or customer experience—including integrating AI Agents, automating workflows, and improving decision-making. [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/)
- **AI-Enabled Product & Tech Leadership**: Advisory, coaching, and fractional leadership models to help define product vision, scale engineering teams, and make informed technical decisions. [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held, bootstrapped)
- **Key Metric**: 21 employees (as of mid-2025); operates across 8 countries (Argentina, United States, Spain, India, Colombia, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Brazil) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/goempirical)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bootstrapped; no external investors disclosed. Key clients are innovative tech companies seeking long-term product development partnerships.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount decreased 12% YoY (from ~24 to 21 employees); LinkedIn followers grew 9.3% annually to 952; operates in 8 countries with a strong nearshore presence in Latin America; publicly emphasizes AI-enabled services as a core differentiator. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/goempirical)

## Competitive Advantages
- **People-first, AI-driven model**: Combines human-centric team culture with AI-enabled development tools and practices, positioning itself as a modern, forward-thinking partner.
- **Deep Latin American talent network**: Over 15 years of experience hiring in Latin America (since 2010), offering clients high-quality nearshore talent with cultural alignment and time-zone overlap with North America. [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/)
- **Long-term partnership focus**: Emphasizes "long term relationships over short term transactions," embedding teams deeply with clients rather than delivering one-off projects. [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/)
- **Multicultural and multinational team**: Operates across 8 countries with a diverse workforce, embracing diversity as a core value. [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration across all services**: Actively embedding AI-enabled development tools, processes, and automation into team augmentation, product development, and consulting offerings.
- **Deepening Latin American talent pipeline**: Continuing to hire and develop talent across Argentina, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, Uruguay, and Brazil, leveraging nearshore advantages.
- **Long-term client partnerships**: Prioritizing embedded, ongoing relationships over transactional project work, with continuous support and hands-on management.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Strongly people-first with values including "Lead with integrity," "Add value always," "People first," and "Have fun!" Employees describe it as a place for "personal and professional growth" with a "positive and safe environment." [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/about-us/)
- **Remote-first**: Fully remote working environment with flexible hours and time zones. Employees highlight "the flexibility I have, I can work remotely, very flexible working hours/days, time-zones." [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/about-us/)
- **Diverse and multinational**: Team spans 8 countries across the Americas and Europe, with a strong presence in Argentina (59% of workforce). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/goempirical)
- **Growth opportunities**: Employees describe Empirical as "a place for personal and professional growth, evolution, wealth of opportunities to combine work and personal aspects." [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/about-us/)
- **Technical environment**: 41% of the workforce is in technical roles; the company actively uses AI-enabled development practices and tools, offering exposure to modern AI workflows. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/goempirical)

## Sources
1. [goempirical.com](https://www.goempirical.com/)
2. [goempirical.com/about-us](https://www.goempirical.com/about-us/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/goempirical](https://www.linkedin.com/company/goempirical)
4. [remoterocketship.com](https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/goempirical/)
5. [github.com/goempirical](https://github.com/goempirical)

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