What you’ll do

Become part of an iconic brand that is set to revolutionize the electric pick-up truck & rugged SUV marketplace by achieving the following:

• Install, configure, and maintain AI platform and tools.
• Design, deploy, and operate infrastructure supporting ML and LLM workloads.
• Build, containerize, and deploy AI services using Docker.
• Build and maintain Machine Learning CI/CD pipelines for training, testing, and deployment.
• Deploy and manage AI services across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
• Monitor system performance, reliability, and scalability of AI platforms.
• Implement observability for agentic AI systems to ensure reliability, transparency, and debuggability.
• Perform regular security updates, patching, access control, and vulnerability remediation.
• Integrate AI tools with APIs, data platforms, and internal systems.
• Research, evaluate, and prototype new AI, LLM, and MLOps tools.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, data, and deployment issues.
• Research, test, and prototype emerging AI technologies.
• Document system architecture, deployment processes, and operational runbooks.

Location & Travel Expectations:

• This role is based out of the Scout Motors corporate headquarters in Charlotte, NC.
• This role requires 4-5 days per week in the office, with regular in-person meetings and events. 
• Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.

What you’ll bring 

We expect all Scout employees to have integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, and strive to exhibit a positive attitude, as well as a growth mindset. You’ll be comfortable with change and flexible in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You’ll take a collaborative approach to achieve ambitious goals. Here's what else you'll bring: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years Practical experience with LLM platforms, LLMOps, and MLOps.
• Experience deploying and maintaining AI or data platforms in production.
• Hands-on experience with AI/automation tools.
• Experience designing and orchestrating agentic automation workflows.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Proven experience deploying applications using Docker (Docker files, image optimization, container lifecycle).
• Expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Expertise with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Strong Knowledge of Kubernetes and orchestration.
• Solid understanding of networking.
• Experience supporting high-availability, production AI systems.
• Scripting skills (Python, PySpark, Bash).
• Knowledge of security best practices, patch management, and access controls.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, and product teams to support AI initiatives.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. When a problem occurs, you run towards it not away.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills. You treat colleagues with respect. You have a desire for clean implementations but are also humble in discussing alternative solutions and options.
• A teaching and coaching approach to guiding engineers and teams in approaches.
• Minimum of High School Diploma, GED or equivalent required for all roles at Scout Motors, Inc.

What you'll gain

The benefits of joining Scout include the chance to build products and a company from the ground up.  This is a chance to create something new and lasting – with an iconic brand at its foundation.  In addition, Scout provides competitive compensation and benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Program specifics are detailed in company policies and employee benefit guides, select highlights:

• Competitive insurance including:
  • Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with:
  • An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including:
  • 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
  • 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
  • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
  • Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave

Pay Transparency

This is a full-time, exempt position eligible to receive a base salary and to participate in an annual performance bonus program. Final salary offered will be determined based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience. The annual performance bonus program is preset and not candidate dependent.

Initial base salary range = $140,000.00 - $170,000.00

Internal leveling code: IC8

What you’ll do

Become part of an iconic brand that is set to revolutionize the electric pick-up truck & rugged SUV marketplace by achieving the following:

• Lead the design and engineering of air suspension components including air springs, compressors, valves, height sensors, lines, reservoirs, and electronic control hardware. 
• Ensure implementation of specifications, DFMEAs, and performance targets. 
• Review/Release 3D models, drawings, and engineering documents. 
• Review internal/external development plans, and review test data. 
• Analyze test results, identify root causes, and drive design improvements. 
• Support vehicle-level tuning and calibration engineers in the development of desired ride, comfort, and handling. 
• Work with controls engineers to develop and refine air suspension control strategies (leveling, damping, load management, compressor duty cycle management). 
• Validate system behavior using HIL/SIL tools, CAN logs, and vehicle tests with integration engineers. 
• Support program timing, cost targets, supplier deliverables, and APQP processes. 
• Lead technical discussions with suppliers and internal manufacturing teams. 

Location & Travel Expectations:

• This role will be based out of the Scout Motors location in Novi, Michigan or Charlotte, NC. 
• This role requires daily attendance in the office, with regular in-person meetings and events. 
• Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.

What you’ll bring 

We expect all Scout employees to have integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, and strive to exhibit a positive attitude, as well as a growth mindset. You’ll be comfortable with change and flexible in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You’ll take a collaborative approach to achieve ambitious goals. Here's what else you'll bring: 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering 
• 4+ years of experience in concept engineering or serial development, specifically with focus on air suspension systems. 
• Experience in CAD tools, packaging of chassis components and experience in part design (incl. requirements management, system integration, manufacturing and assembly processes). 
• Advanced project steering and coordination skills to practice independent project management for a defined chassis part scope. 
• Motivated engineer, wanting to work at the cutting edge of vehicle technical design, create new ideas and solutions, enjoying hands-on testing. 
• Strong interpersonal skills including ownership, self-motivated, problem solving, analytical, team player, innovative, creative, communication skills and ability to develop & mutually thrive in working relationships. 
• Proven ability to work in a cross-functional environment. 
• Minimum of High School Diploma, GED or equivalent required for all roles at Scout Motors, Inc.

What you'll gain

The benefits of joining Scout include the chance to build products and a company from the ground up.  This is a chance to create something new and lasting – with an iconic brand at its foundation.  In addition, Scout provides competitive compensation and benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Program specifics are detailed in company policies and employee benefit guides, select highlights:

• Competitive insurance including:
  • Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with:
  • An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including:
  • 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
  • 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
  • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
  • Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave

Pay Transparency

This is a full-time, exempt position eligible to receive a base salary and to participate in an annual performance bonus program. Final salary offered will be determined based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience. The annual performance bonus program is preset and not candidate dependent.

Initial base salary range = $110,000.00 - $135,000.00

Internal leveling code: IC9

What you’ll do

Become part of an iconic brand that is set to revolutionize the electric pick-up truck & rugged SUV marketplace by achieving the following:

Your engineering ingenuity, wonder & magic in coming up with a powertrain that supports the concepts will be instrumental in shaping the perception of Scout as a brand, as well as gaining peer admiration in the automotive industry.  

• Assist in the development of the powertrain and drive system integration for Scout pick-up trucks and rugged SUVs (BEV/EREV) 
• Be a part of the vision of engineering excellence & source of knowledge 
• Take over responsibility for requirements definition and function design 
• Calibrate & create with collaboration, a Scout specific driving experience that allows other teams to contribute and implement their necessities  
• Develop and optimize OBDII diagnostic calibration strategies to ensure compliance with emissions regulations, including readiness monitors, fault detection thresholds, and diagnostic trouble code (DTC) logic 
• Perform data analysis and vehicle testing using tools such as INCA or MATLAB/Simulink to validate OBDII calibrations under various operating conditions and duty cycles 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including powertrain controls, software development, validation, and regulatory compliance teams to deliver robust and production-ready OBDII diagnostic systems 
• Liaise with the powertrain hardware and chassis tuning team to propose technical input  
• Coordinate and contribute into the prototype and serial development stage in terms of software availability, calibration test trips, data collection, data analysis and technical report creation to ensure software releases 
• Partner with other concept & systems architect teams to come up with solution to engineering & functional challenges  
• Hands-on prototyping and building capability, from initial operation to coordinating and implementing software 
• Be involved other related tasks / activities as required 

Location & Travel Expectations:

• This role will be based out of the Scout Motors location in Novi, Michigan or Charlotte, NC
• This role requires 4-5 days per week in the office, with regular in-person meetings and events. 
• Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.

What you’ll bring 

We expect all Scout employees to have integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, and strive to exhibit a positive attitude, as well as a growth mindset. You’ll be comfortable with change and flexible in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You’ll take a collaborative approach to achieve ambitious goals. Here's what else you'll bring: 

• Relevant degree such as bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Technology, IT systems, or Engineering Technology from an accredited college or university, preferably in electrical engineering 
• 8+ years of experience in concept engineering or serial development, in the work scope of calibration and validation of software functions and the needed calibration tools including ETAS and Matlab 
• Experience in calibration process, calibration on testbenches and cars to integrate data in a manner that reflects system engineering, integration and release processes 
• Experience in calibration of several OBDII functionalities  
• Experience in the evaluation and the assessment of OBDII failure simulation and the corresponding emission calibration 
• Ability to read and understand Simulink flow diagrams and C-programming source code 
• Motivated engineer wanting to work at the cutting edge of electric vehicle technical design, create new ideas and solutions, enjoy hands-on testing 
• Strong interpersonal skills including ownership, self-motivated, problem solving, analytical, team player, innovative, creative, communication skills and ability to develop & mutually thrive in working relationships 
• Proven ability to work in a truly cross-functional and global environment 

What you'll gain

The benefits of joining Scout include the chance to build products and a company from the ground up.  This is a chance to create something new and lasting – with an iconic brand at its foundation.  In addition, Scout provides competitive compensation and benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Program specifics are detailed in company policies and employee benefit guides, select highlights:

• Competitive insurance including:
  • Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with:
  • An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including:
  • 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
  • 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
  • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
  • Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave

Pay Transparency

This is a full-time, exempt position eligible to receive a base salary and to participate in an annual performance bonus program. Final salary offered will be determined based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience. The annual performance bonus program is preset and not candidate dependent.

Initial base salary range = $130,000 - $160,000

Internal leveling code: IC9

About Lucid Bots

Lucid Bots is an AI robotics company building the world’s most productive and responsible robots. Our mission is simple: extend human reach. We design intelligent machines that take on dangerous, demanding, and repetitive work—so people don’t have to.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, we design, engineer, manufacture, and support our products in the United States. Our production-ready robots are deployed by customers around the world to improve safety, increase productivity, and elevate operational standards.

We are one of the fastest-growing manufacturing companies in the United States, recently ranked fourth nationally. Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator (S19), Cubit Capital, Idea Fund Partners, Danu Ventures, and others, we are scaling quickly at the intersection of AI, hardware, and real-world impact.

We’re building more than robots—we’re building the future of physical AI.

Our Core Values and How We Work Together

At Lucid Bots, we’re building something extraordinary - and how we work matters just as much as what we build. These values guide how we hire, grow, and show up for one another.

• Expedition Behavior - We climb as one. No silos, no “that’s not my job.” We protect the team and share the load.

• Grow with Humility - We’re relentless learners. We seek feedback, own mistakes, and get better every day.

• Lift People Up - Humans come first. We care fiercely, speak honestly, and design for real people in real conditions.

• Build the Extraordinary - We take ownership, reject the ordinary, and run toward hard problems.

We live Above the Line: we take responsibility, create solutions, and shape the future.
If these values energize you, you’ll thrive here. If they feel like too much, this may not be the right climb - and that’s okay.

Mission

Raise Lucid Bots’ next round of private capital, get the company into an auditable position, build the financial architecture to scale our Robots-as-a-Service business, and lay the foundation for an eventual public market process.

Who You Are

You have worked inside a manufacturing company at low 8-figures in revenue and helped scale it to 9-figures. You have raised private capital, negotiated venture debt terms, and sat across the table from lenders and leasing partners to structure deals that funded fleet growth or hardware subscriptions. You know what it takes to get a company through its first real audit and you have done it.

You do not make slide decks about what someone else should build. You build it. You own the banking relationships, the capital structure, and the financial narrative. You are not looking for a caretaker role. You are looking to build something.

Outcomes

What success looks like in this role, measured against results, not activities.

Year 1

• Lead and close the next fundraise. Own the financial model, investor materials, data room, due diligence process, and investor communications. Deliver a round that funds the next phase of growth on terms the board supports.
• Scale the financial engine behind Lucid Refresh. We are already deploying robots as a service. The CFO owns what comes next: lead the banking relationships, negotiate venture debt terms, and source financing partnerships with lending and leasing companies to fund fleet growth. Structure recurring revenue contracts so the unit economics work for Lucid Bots and the financing partners.
• Get the company audit-ready. Establish the internal controls, GAAP-compliant processes, and documentation standards required to pass a formal audit. Monthly close within 15 business days. Quarterly board packages delivered on time with numbers leadership and investors trust completely.
• Make gross margin visible and improvable. Deliver clear unit economics across every hardware product line (Sherpa, Lavo, Power Tether). Identify and execute at least one meaningful margin improvement initiative.
• Deploy AI across as many finance workflows as possible. Forecasting, close automation, anomaly detection, reporting. Show what a lean, high-performing finance team looks like with the right tooling.
• Scale the finance function without scaling headcount proportionally. Mature the systems, processes, and operating cadences already in place. ERP (Acumatica) utilization should be a driver of reporting speed and data integrity, not a bottleneck.

Years 2 to 3

• Diversified, stable capital structure with financing vehicles matched to each business line.
• Lucid Refresh operating as a financially mature RaaS business with proven unit economics and established financing partnerships that support fleet growth.
• Financial infrastructure, governance, audit history, and reporting standards that put the company in a credible position to pursue a public market process.
• High-performing Finance team with clear development paths and strong cross-functional trust.
• Multiple years of clean, completed audits. Forecasts consistently within target variance range. Strong internal controls that scale with the business.

Competencies

The traits and capabilities that predict success in this role.

• Manufacturing Financial Mastery: Deep expertise in cost accounting, COGS structure, gross margin analysis, and operational finance in a physical-product manufacturing environment. Has lived inside the complexity of hardware margins and knows how to improve them.
• Capital Strategy and Fundraising: Has led or co-led a private fundraising process of meaningful scale, both equity and debt. Has negotiated venture debt facilities and built relationships with lending and leasing partners to finance hardware fleets or subscription models. Knows what it takes to set a private company on a credible path to the public markets.
• AI Fluency: Actively uses AI tooling in their work today. Has a concrete point of view on how AI changes what a lean finance team can accomplish. Not watching from the sidelines.
• Execution at Pace: Comfortable in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment. Does not wait for perfect conditions. Moves quickly, makes good decisions with incomplete information, and follows through.
• Communication and Financial Storytelling: Translates complex financial information into clear, actionable narratives for executives, board members, and investors. Can own the financial narrative externally.
• Leadership: Leads with high standards and direct feedback. Builds a team that owns execution so the CFO can focus on strategy and capital. Models Lucid Bots values, especially Expedition Behavior and Build the Extraordinary.

Qualifications

Required

• 12 to 18+ years of progressive finance experience in a high-growth startup or growth-stage manufacturing, hardware, or physical-product environment, including experience scaling a company from low 8-figures to 9-figures in revenue.
• Direct experience with cost accounting, standard costing, and COGS in a manufacturing company.
• Has led or co-led a private fundraising process (equity and/or debt) of meaningful scale.
• Direct experience negotiating venture debt facilities and building financing partnerships with lending or leasing companies.
• ERP experience required. Acumatica strongly preferred.
• Strong command of GAAP, financial modeling, and financial systems architecture.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

Strongly Preferred

• Active, demonstrated use of AI tools in financial operations.
• Public market experience, IPO readiness, or S-1 familiarity.
• MBA or CPA.

Why Join Lucid Bots?

• Work directly with the founder of a fast-growing, venture-backed robotics startup.
• Be part of a team solving real-world problems with frontier technology.
• Get a front-row seat to fundraising, company building, and startup strategy at scale.
• Learn more in one year than most people do in five—this is a career accelerant.
• Help support the culture, pace, and systems of a company scaling fast and building things that matter.

Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 3% retirement match
• 15 days of paid time off (PTO)
• 3 sick days 
• 11 paid holidays, with 3 of those being floating holidays
• Employee stock option plan

We Want to Meet You!

1. Why here? Why are you excited about Lucid Bots specifically?
2. Why you? What is the one thing about you that a resume can’t capture?

Required:

• 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
• Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
• A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.

Preferred / Bonus:

• Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
• Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
• Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
• Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
• Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

What we offer

• A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
• A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
• Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
• Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
• A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.

The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience             

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Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 
Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

PLEASE NOTE: This position ideally works a hybrid schedule in Charlotte, NC. (Tuesday-Thursday in-office). Strong preference for candidates who are in Charlotte, NC, or willing to relocate.

About the Role

LendingTree is seeking a SQL Operations Engineer to join our Platform Operations team. You will automate, scale, and support our cloud-based data ecosystem (Snowflake, AWS/Azure). This is a hands-on role focused on eliminating operational toil through CI/CD, robust monitoring, and automation-first engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Snowflake Administration: Manage environments, security policies (RBAC), and performance tuning; optimize cost and query efficiency.
• Platform Automation: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments using GitLab and tools like Liquibase or Red Gate.
• Cloud Integration: Support integrations between Snowflake and AWS/Azure services, including object storage, messaging, and serverless functions (Lambda/Azure Functions).
• Pipeline & Streaming Ops: Maintain batch and streaming (Confluent Kafka) architectures; troubleshoot ETL/ELT failures and ensure data observability.
• Security & Reliability: Implement logging, auditing, and IAM controls; participate in incident response and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Collaboration: Partner with Data Engineering and Stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with Snowflake administration and database performance tuning.
• Cloud & DevOps: Proficiency in AWS or Azure and building CI/CD pipelines for data platforms.
• Data Flow: Experience supporting Kafka (streaming) and ETL/ELT workflows.
• Technical Skills: Strong scripting skills (Python, SQL, or Bash) and familiarity with Git-based workflows.
• Troubleshooting: Proven ability to diagnose complex issues across distributed cloud systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with orchestration tools like Airflow.
• Experience with event-driven or serverless architectures.
• Knowledge of cloud cost optimization and observability tools.

What Success Looks Like

You are an automation-first engineer who thrives on ownership. You don't just "fix" problems—you build systems that prevent them. You are a clear communicator who balances technical excellence with a focus on security and reliability.

ABOUT LENDINGTREE

LendingTree is the nation’s leading online lending marketplace. We connect consumers with multiple lenders so they can easily compare options and find the right fit — from mortgages and personal loans to credit, savings, and insurance products. 

Our founder, Doug Lebda, started LendingTree in 1996 after his own frustrating house-hunting experience. What began as a simple idea to make loan shopping easier has grown into a platform that empowers millions of people to make smarter financial decisions every day.

What else you should know:

• We’re a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: TREE).
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to expand our reach and capabilities.
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.
• We’re also committed to giving back — through philanthropic programs, volunteer opportunities, and partnerships that strengthen the communities where we live and work.

OUR CULTURE

We’re a collaborative, entrepreneurial team that values curiosity, creativity, and getting things done together. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most driven people you’ll meet — and we celebrate innovation, inclusion, and ownership. At LendingTree, you’ll find an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives make us stronger. We believe in working hard and supporting one another — with the flexibility and trust that help you thrive both personally and professionally.

We’re proud to offer generous benefits, wellness programs, and time-off policies designed to help you recharge, stay healthy, and bring your best self to work every day. And yes — we still have fun doing it (our “GSD – Get Stuff Done” award is a fan favorite!)

Come grow with us, make an impact, and be part of a company that truly cares about its people and its community.

LendingTree is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status.

CCPA Disclosure

This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on H1-B, F-1, OPT, STEM-OPT, or TN visa, nor is it available to work corp-to-corp.

This role requires a hybrid schedule and will be based in our South Charlotte, NC or New York, NY office (Tuesday through Thursday) and optional remote days on Mondays and Fridays each week.

Red Ventures Growth and Transformation partners with financial institutions to build digital products, customer platforms, and marketing technology solutions that drive acquisition, deepening, and retention. 

Red Ventures is looking for a technically strong, growth-minded Engineering Manager to lead a client-facing engineering team within our Banking Client Services organization. You’ll own the engineering delivery and site operations for a financial services’ web presence, leading a small team today with a clear path to growth as the client partnership expands.

What sets this role apart: you’ll operate at the intersection of client-facing engineering leadership and modern AI-augmented workflows. Our teams are actively integrating agentic tooling and automation into how we code, manage tickets, maintain compliance, and solve problems alongside our business and data science partners. We’re looking for someone who is energized by this shift and ready to lead a team through it.

This role reports to the Director of Engineering and will serve as the technical lead on client engagements when needed, with the Director’s support. The ideal candidate has strong communication instincts and the desire to grow into an increasingly senior client-facing leadership role over time.

Travel to partner locations is an expected component of this role to support relationship management and business objectives.

Curious how Growth and Transformation fits into Red Ventures? Click here. 

What You’ll Do:

Team & Client Leadership

• Lead a team of software engineers responsible for the engineering delivery and site operations of a financial services web platform.
• Serve as the technical lead on client calls and escalations, communicating complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with designers, customer experience leads, business stakeholders, and leadership to deliver high-quality solutions that strengthen client trust.
• Position engineers for success through coaching, mentorship, regular feedback, and personal development planning.

AI & Process Modernization

• Champion the adoption and effective use of agentic workflows and AI-assisted tooling for coding, ticket management, compliance, and engineering process improvement.
• Leverage internally-built automation and AI tooling to increase team efficiency, reduce manual toil, and improve delivery quality.
• Partner with business and data science teams to identify and implement AI-driven solutions to operational and client-facing problems.
• Stay current with emerging AI/ML tooling for software development (IDE integrations, CLI agents, code review automation) and evaluate their fit for the team.

Site Operations & Engineering Excellence

• Drive SRE best practices: observability, incident response, reliability, and operational maturity for client-facing web properties.
• Improve engineering processes, CI/CD pipelines, code quality, and testing practices across the team.
• Demonstrate project and roadmap planning skills, balancing client commitments with operational health and team investment.

What We’re Looking For:

Leadership & Communication

• Experience managing and mentoring software engineers, including coaching, delivering feedback, and supporting career growth.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences, including client stakeholders.
• Skills in managing team dynamics, navigating conflict constructively, and building a collaborative, psychologically safe environment.
• Experience collaborating across functions: design, marketing, data science, and business partners to align on priorities and deliver outcomes.
• Comfort operating as a technical lead on client-facing calls and escalations with leadership support.
• 3+ years of engineering management experience

Software Engineering

• Proficiency in web development languages and frameworks (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, React, Node.js).
• Understanding of web application architecture: client-server models, RESTful services, and microservices.
• Strong emphasis on code quality: code reviews, testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end), and engineering best practices.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and managing delivery through sprints and iterative planning.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling (e.g., Harness, GitHub Actions).

AI Fluency & Automation Mindset

• Demonstrated comfort with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar IDE/CLI integrations).
• Familiarity with agentic workflows or automation frameworks used to streamline engineering, compliance, or operational processes.
• A proactive mindset toward identifying opportunities to apply AI and automation to reduce toil and improve outcomes.
• Willingness to experiment, evaluate new tooling, and lead a team through adoption of emerging AI capabilities.

Data, Accessibility & Security

• Understanding of web analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Mixpanel) and the ability to use data to inform engineering decisions.
• Familiarity with databases (SQL and NoSQL) and their integration with web applications.
• Knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards and experience implementing accessibility testing practices.
• Familiarity with process and controls required in SOC2 operations. Demonstrated experience leading in SOC2 environments preferred.  
• Understanding of web security principles (OWASP guidelines) and data handling regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), particularly important in a financial services context.

Compensation:

This range reflects total cash compensation, which may include base salary only or base salary plus target bonus, depending on the role. Where eligible, equity may also be offered separately and not included below. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

• Total Cash Compensation Range
  • Charlotte, NC Hybrid Compensation Range: $130,000 - $210,000 per year 
  • New York, NY Hybrid Compensation Range: $162,500- $262,500 per year  

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

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Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies — spanning several U.S. businesses, a joint venture in the health services industry, and strategic investments in Europe. Their businesses include The Points Guy, Lonely Planet, Bankrate, the Allconnect Platform, RV Home Client Growth, RV Growth & Transformation, Sage Home Loans Corporation, and more. Across the portfolio, Red Ventures businesses deliver seamless digital experiences for consumers, help Fortune 100 clients solve large-scale digital growth challenges, and create world-class experiences and opportunities for employees. Learn more at redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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ROLE OVERVIEW

As we scale our AI platform, we are building production-grade multi-agent systems that power advisor copilots, investment intelligence workflows, and autonomous research capabilities. We are seeking a Staff AI Engineer to architect, build, and operationalize these systems at scale. This is a hands-on, high-impact engineering role focused on shipping reliable, enterprise-ready agentic AI systems into production.

PROJECTS

• Advisor Copilot (Multi-Agent Systems)
  Build a production-grade, multi-agent copilot for financial advisors that retrieves and reasons over client data, analyzes portfolio exposures and risk scenarios, generates personalized insights, enforces compliance guardrails, and drafts client-ready communications — all within a monitored, auditable architecture.
• Workflow Automation
  Design end-to-end AI workflows spanning client discovery, investment research synthesis, portfolio construction and optimization, and compliant meeting preparation — replacing fragmented tools with intelligent, autonomous systems.
• AI Agent Platform & Infrastructure
  Architect a scalable multi-agent platform with orchestration engines, memory and state management, dynamic tool invocation, structured output validation, observability, fault tolerance, and automated evaluation — solving reliability, explainability, and regulatory challenges at scale.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design and implement production-grade multi-agent systems using modern agent frameworks (e.g., Pydantic AI, Agent Harness, Tool-Calling, Code Execution)
• Build agent workflows that integrate context retrieval, reasoning, tool execution, validation, and compliance checks, 
• Develop distributed services for agent execution with strong observability, monitoring, and failure handling
• Establish evaluation frameworks for multi-step reasoning accuracy, groundedness, hallucination mitigation, and financial correctness
• Implement memory management, context handling, and agent state persistence strategies
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust agent architectures
• Optimize systems for latency, cost efficiency, and reliability in production
• Contribute to infrastructure decisions around model serving, vector databases, caching, and orchestration layers

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 3+ years of experience building and shipping Generative AI and LLM applications into production, 6+ years of ML experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying multi-agent systems of various architecture
• Strong experience with multimodal LLMs, knowledge graph, data synthesis, LLM fine tuning, reinforcement learning, agent harness, agent memory
• Deep proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), and containerized deployments
• Experience implementing monitoring, evaluation, and reliability safeguards for AI systems
• Strong systems thinking — ability to design beyond single-model solutions toward coordinated, multi-component architectures
• Resilience and adaptability - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus

COMPENSATION RANGE

$200,000 - $275,000 USD, competitive and appropriate to experience level

About Lucid Bots

Lucid Bots is an AI robotics company building the world’s most productive and responsible robots. Our mission is simple: extend human reach. We design intelligent machines that take on dangerous, demanding, and repetitive work—so people don’t have to.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, we design, engineer, manufacture, and support our products in the United States. Our production-ready robots are deployed by customers around the world to improve safety, increase productivity, and elevate operational standards.

We are one of the fastest-growing manufacturing companies in the United States, recently ranked fourth nationally. Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator (S19), Cubit Capital, Idea Fund Partners, Danu Ventures, and others, we are scaling quickly at the intersection of AI, hardware, and real-world impact.

We’re building more than robots—we’re building the future of physical AI.

Our Core Values and How We Work Together

At Lucid Bots, we’re building something extraordinary - and how we work matters just as much as what we build. These values guide how we hire, grow, and show up for one another.

• Expedition Behavior - We climb as one. No silos, no “that’s not my job.” We protect the team and share the load.

• Grow with Humility - We’re relentless learners. We seek feedback, own mistakes, and get better every day.

• Lift People Up - Humans come first. We care fiercely, speak honestly, and design for real people in real conditions.

• Build the Extraordinary - We take ownership, reject the ordinary, and run toward hard problems.

We live Above the Line: we take responsibility, create solutions, and shape the future.
If these values energize you, you’ll thrive here. If they feel like too much, this may not be the right climb - and that’s okay.

The Role

We’re hiring a Senior Autonomy Engineer to own the autonomy stack for our ground robot platform.

You’ve done this before — taken a robot from simulation to real-world deployment, and seen what breaks along the way. You understand that autonomy isn’t finished when it works once — it’s finished when it works every time.

You’ll be the technical authority on what “production-ready autonomy” means at Lucid Bots.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver autonomy systems that perform reliably in real-world environments
  Own the full autonomy stack — perception, localization, planning, navigation — and ensure consistent performance across deployments
• Enable parallel development through high-quality simulation
  Build and improve simulation environments that allow the team to develop and validate autonomy before hardware is finalized
• Systematically close the sim-to-real gap
  Quantify where simulation diverges from real-world behavior and drive improvements that increase field reliability
• Define what “done” looks like for autonomy
  Establish clear, measurable performance criteria for autonomous operation — not subjective definitions of success
• Build systems that scale beyond the demo
  Architect autonomy software that performs reliably across many customers, environments, and edge cases
• Raise the technical bar of the team
  Mentor engineers, review code and architecture, and guide the team toward production-grade systems
• Ensure hardware and autonomy are designed together
  Partner closely with hardware engineers to build systems optimized for automation from the start

What We’re Looking For

• 5–10 years of experience in robotics or autonomy systems
• Experience shipping at least one autonomous mobile robot to production
• Strong hands-on experience with ROS 2
• Deep expertise in at least two of: perception, SLAM/localization, motion planning, or controls
• Experience with robots operating in outdoor or unstructured environments
• Strong programming skills with production-quality code

What We’re Not Looking For

• Pure researchers without production experience
• Engineers who have only worked in simulation or controlled environments
• Candidates without experience shipping real robotic systems

Why Join Lucid Bots?

• Work directly with the founder of a fast-growing, venture-backed robotics startup.
• Be part of a team solving real-world problems with frontier technology.
• Get a front-row seat to fundraising, company building, and startup strategy at scale.
• Learn more in one year than most people do in five—this is a career accelerant.
• Help support the culture, pace, and systems of a company scaling fast and building things that matter.

Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 3% retirement match
• 15 days of paid time off (PTO)
• 3 sick days 
• 11 paid holidays, with 3 of those being floating holidays
• Employee stock option plan

We’d Love to Hear from You!

1. Why here? Why are you excited about Lucid Bots specifically?
2. Why you? What is the one thing about you that a resume can’t capture?