Engineering Manager, Applied AI - AI Entries

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

Lyft’s engineering team is growing rapidly, and we are looking for engineering managers to help us scale. Our engineers are smart, flexible, and love solving difficult challenges. They look to their managers for organizational transparency, career development, mentorship, and honest feedback. They move fast and ship code to production continuously, relying on their leadership to increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean.

Our engineering managers are people with varying technical backgrounds and interests—some are involved in the technical details of their team and others provide general technical direction and oversight. As managers, our job is to keep teams efficient and executing on the right goals. We build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.

The Applied AI team is in search of an Engineering Manager to lead the AI Entries team. You will drive the technical strategy for integrating Lyft into emerging AI ecosystems and devices. You will build and mentor a high-performing team responsible for designing robust, multimodal user experiences. By pioneering these novel interaction layers, you will transform the customer journey and make Lyft available everywhere our riders are.

• Set the technical vision and strategy for a rapidly evolving product area, defining how Lyft interacts with third-party AI agents and new hardware surfaces.
• Co-own the product strategy with the product partner and ensure a timely delivery with high quality of engineering solutions.
• Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems related to LLM integrations, multimodal inputs (voice, visual), and context-aware actions.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals.
• Build teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other.
• Provide continuous feedback, address performance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members.
• Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges in your organization.
• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly.
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes.
• Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high-potential candidates from diverse backgrounds.
• Work with your engineers and/or product managers to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short-term and long-term goals.
• Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our passengers and drivers.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Experience architecting, building, and scaling distributed systems.
• Experience both launching consumer-facing products and leading backend and ML-focused teams (Experience with Applied AI, LLM integrations, or multimodal interactions is a strong plus).
• You have experience leading a team of engineers and guiding them through their career development.
• You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and you’re committed to driving projects to completion creatively.
• You can motivate and instill a strong sense of ownership in your team.
• You have experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work.
• You are able to thrive in a heavily cross-functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure.
• You work well with product and science partners and help set the product vision for an ambiguous project.
• Very strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills and aptitude to engage…