Engineering Manager, Software Security

Role Overview

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the development of security-focused training and evaluation tasks for frontier AI coding models. This role owns delivery, quality, and capacity across multiple pods and is accountable to Google for throughput, task difficulty, quality standards, and on-time batch completion.

The Engineering Manager acts as the final quality gate, ensuring vulnerability-based tasks are technically accurate, reproducible, robust against gaming, and aligned with the project’s evaluation goals. The role combines software security expertise, people leadership, client communication, delivery management, and data-driven capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery, quality, and capacity across multiple pods.
• Plan batches, assign work to Pod Leads, and track daily throughput against phase targets.
• Ensure batches meet Google’s expectations for volume, difficulty, quality, and timelines.
• Lead weekly client reporting and communicate progress, risks, and dependencies.
• Escalate tooling issues, rate limits, safety blocks, and staffing constraints early.
• Align with Google on scope, timelines, task volume, and difficulty changes.
• Conduct final reviews of security tasks before delivery.
• Calibrate Pod Leads on CWE classification, verifier robustness, task quality, and difficulty.
• Run interviews and make hiring decisions against the approved job description.
• Identify and promote high-performing Trainers to Pod Lead roles.
• Forecast headcount needs using throughput and workload data, and start hiring waves approximately three weeks ahead of projected capacity requirements.
• Use dashboards and operational metrics to guide delivery and staffing decisions.

Requirements

• Approximately 10 years of experience as a senior software security engineer.
• Experience leading teams against measurable delivery, quality, and schedule targets.
• Strong understanding of CWE, CVE, and the OWASP Top 10 across multiple programming languages and software ecosystems.
• Demonstrated experience reproducing vulnerabilities, reviewing security patches, and evaluating proof-of-vulnerability tests.
• Experience designing or reviewing automated tests, verifiers, CI workflows, or reproducible technical evaluation environments.
• Strong proficiency in at least one major programming language, such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C/C++, C#, Go, Rust, Ruby, PHP, Kotlin, or Swift.
• Experience with Git, Linux, Bash, Docker, and common software security tooling.
• Comfortable using dashboards, throughput metrics, quality data, and operational reports to make delivery and staffing decisions.
• Experience managing or mentoring technical teams, including assigning work, reviewing output, giving feedback, and developing team leads.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical risks and project status clearly to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple pods, priorities, and delivery phases simultaneously.

Engagement and Work Arrangement

• Short-term contract assignment for three months.
• Fully remote environment; 40 hours per week, with four hours of overlap with PST.
• Maximum rate: $25 per hour.
• Positions: 4.
• Eligible locations: Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Turkey, and Vietnam.

Evaluation Process

• Technical/delivery interview, approximately 45–60 minutes.