# Engineering Manager at Voltai

Engineering Manager at Voltai in Palo Alto Office. Full-time. Posted September 18, 2025.

- Company: Voltai
- Location: Palo Alto Office
- Job type: Full-time
- Experience: 2+ years
- Posted: 2025-09-18
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/voltai.careers/29e8545f-842a-458a-bca5-c2e84379a6a6/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/engineering-manager-voltai-ap9we5

## Description

**About Voltai**
Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.

**About the Team**
Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.

**Key Responsibilities**

- **Lead and manage a team of engineers** through weekly sprint cycles and delivery milestones

- **Drive sprint planning and execution** — from backlog grooming to sprint reviews to retrospectives

- **Ruthlessly prioritize engineering work** based on business impact, technical debt, and resource constraints

- Translate complex requirements from **product and hardware teams** into clear, actionable engineering tasks and user stories

- **Remove blockers and facilitate team productivity** through daily standups, 1:1s, and cross-team coordination

- Partner closely with product and design teams to balance feature delivery with technical excellence

- **Track team velocity, sprint health, and delivery metrics** while driving continuous process improvement

**Required Skill Sets**

- 2–6 years of experience in engineering management, ideally leading 3-8 engineers at a technical or AI-driven company

- **Strong people management skills** — coaching engineers, managing performance, and fostering team growth

- **Excellent prioritization and project management abilities**, especially in fast-moving sprint environments

- Experience with agile methodologies, sprint planning tools (Jira, Linear), and engineering productivity metrics

- Ability to **balance competing priorities** while maintaining team focus and morale

- **Technical depth** to engage in architectural discussions and code reviews when needed

- Strong background in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering is a bonus

- Comfort working in fast-paced, high-growth environments with shifting priorities