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title: 'Engineering Manager at Sierra Studio'
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# Engineering Manager at Sierra Studio

- **Company:** Sierra Studio
- **Location:** Brazil
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sierra-studio/d88e9e92-70f3-429d-9814-2d051dd6bd33

## Job description

🏔️ About Sierra Studio Sierra Studio is an AI engineering studio and startup incubator – we turn our customers’ ideas into reality! We’re based in Los Angeles, but our teammates live all around the world. We create products across all areas of software — from web and mobile apps to cutting-edge work at the forefront of AI and large language models.

💼 About The Role As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead one or more project teams at Sierra — owning delivery end to end while staying close to the code. You’ll set technical direction, mentor and grow the engineers around you, and partner with product, design, and clients to ship products the team is proud of. This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll spend more of your time leading than a typical engineer, but you’ll still be in the codebase. As an early leader at a startup, you’ll also help shape our engineering culture and how we build.

Here’s a taste of what you could do at Sierra!

- Lead projects: Own the delivery of one or more client or internal projects, from scoping to shipping
- Grow the team: Mentor engineers, give feedback, and help them level up
- Stay technical: Architect solutions, review code, and jump in hands-on where it matters most
- Hiring: Help us grow the team and interview future teammates
- Client partnership: Work directly with founders and stakeholders to turn ideas into production products

🔎 Who We’re Looking For We’re looking for an experienced tech lead ready to step fully into engineering management — someone with strong technical judgment and the communication and people skills to lead a team. You don’t need to have “Manager” in your current title; what matters is that you’ve led the direction of projects and the people on them. If you’re excited about this role but don’t check every single box, we’d love to see your application anyway.

🧞 Leadership & management

- Experience leading project teams and owning delivery end to end
- Track record of mentoring and growing engineers
- Strong communication skills — you can align a team, manage stakeholders, and give clear feedback
- Experience turning vague asks into phased plans a team can execute
- Fluent communication in English, written and verbal (our clients are US-based)

💻 Technical depth

- You’re still hands-on — a senior engineer who leads by example and stays close to the code
- Strong architecture and technical decision-making across a project’s stack
- Ability to run and support multiple projects at the same time
- Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, and agentic patterns
- Backend: Either Python (e.g. FastAPI) or TypeScript experience
- Growth mindset: Ability to quickly learn new skills in the AI space
- Uses AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) to supercharge the team’s workflow

🚀 Bonus — nice to have!

- Experience building products with LLMs
- Curiosity about new developments in AI
- Experience partnering closely with product and design, and comfort shaping the "what" alongside the "how."
- Consulting or client-facing experience integrating new systems into enterprise-owned infrastructure.
- Comfort working through customer IT, security review, and change-management processes to get things live.

🌎 How We Work Fully remote, with flexible hours — we care about output, not hours online. We support work-life balance for teammates at every life stage.

💖 Our culture

- Growth mindset: We look to magnify our strengths, take chances, and always learn from our mistakes.
- Supportive: We keep our egos out of the workplace and support each other when trying new things.
- Product & customer centric: We care deeply about our customers and clients and always keep their needs top of mind. We build tech to solve real problems.
- Ownership: We take initiative, even when it is “not our job.” As a startup, we all wear lots of hats.

💡 Why join us? At Sierra Studio, we believe in nurturing talent and creating good vibes at work. We seek inclusion and embrace our differences. We’re all about “growth mindset”, and we look to magnify our strengths, take chances, and always learn from our mistakes. We don’t fit our teammates into boxes, and instead we understand that each person has their own unique set of skills that they bring to the table. If you join us, we’ll embrace who you are today, and give you the space and tools to keep growing.

Salary Range: 80K - 120K USD Your exact compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors that reflect your individual qualifications and how they align with the needs of the role.

## About Sierra Studio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sierra Studio is an AI-first engineering studio and tech incubator that helps companies embed AI systems, tools, and talent to accelerate innovation while keeping people and culture at the center.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Partnership)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Tim Feess (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Engineering Services / AI Development
- **Target Customers**: Startups, Enterprise, and SMBs looking to become AI-first; US-based founders seeking development teams in Brazil
- **Mission/Purpose**: Build AI solutions that accelerate progress while strengthening the people and culture behind them; help companies move from AI experimentation to AI execution.

## Products & Services
- **AI System Building**: Custom AI-first systems tuned to client data, teams, and goals – moving beyond SaaS shortcuts to real transformation.
- **AI Team Training Programs**: Training for coding and knowledge work acceleration, helping teams adopt AI-first approaches.
- **Global Talent / Hiring Services**: Connecting US-based founders with remote development teams in Brazil.
- **Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Program**: A program for founders to lead client projects, explore new technologies, and incubate their own ventures within Sierra’s ecosystem.
- **Embedded Engineering**: AI engineers embed directly with client teams to accelerate roadmaps while protecting IP.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed (likely bootstrapped); headcount of 25 employees (as of mid-2025) with 78.6% yearly growth
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed
- **Growth Signals**: Strong LinkedIn follower growth (+10.8% yearly), website traffic growth (+136.8% yearly), active hiring for multiple roles (Lead AI Engineer, Lead Full Stack Engineer, EIR), and expansion of Brazil office.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first, human-first approach**: Combines technical excellence with a culture-centered methodology, ensuring solutions scale without losing team alignment.
- **Global talent pipeline**: Deep presence in Brazil allows access to high-quality engineering talent at competitive rates, while maintaining US-based leadership.
- **EIR program**: Unique incubator model that attracts entrepreneurial engineers and fosters internal venture creation.
- **Embedded model**: Unlike traditional outsourcing, engineers work side-by-side with client teams, preserving IP and cultural fit.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the AI-first engineering studio model across industries (Finance, Education, Insurance, Hiring, Construction, SaaS).
- Expanding the Brazil talent hub and deepening partnerships with US founders.
- Growing the EIR program to incubate more internal ventures.
- Continued emphasis on AI training and knowledge work acceleration for enterprise clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values curiosity, collaboration, and courage; described as “human-first” with a focus on impact and integrity.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote-first for Brazil-based roles; US roles likely flexible (HQ in Los Angeles). Offsites bring global team together.
- **Perks & Growth**: Opportunity to work on frontier AI projects with world-class founders; career growth in a fast-growing studio; active community events (e.g., live Q&A with CEO, Global Career Summit).
- **Engineering Culture**: Engineers build AI systems from scratch, use modern tooling, and are encouraged to explore new technologies. Emphasis on “building real systems that create momentum and scale.”

## Sources
1. [sierra.studio](https://sierra.studio/)
2. [sierra.studio/careers](https://sierra.studio/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/sierra-studio-ss](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sierra-studio-ss)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sierra-studio](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sierra-studio)
5. [sierra.studio/join-the-team](https://sierra.studio/join-the-team)

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