Engineering Manager AI Platform - Aras Corporation

Engineering Manager AI Platform (m/f/d)

Location: Poland / within Poland

Aras Corporation is a fast-growing, innovative, and trusted provider of software that improves productivity and profitability for engineering, manufacturing, and infrastructure industries. Our resilient and open software platform empowers subscribers to deliver sustainable performance with the flexibility and agility required to meet evolving market demands.

As part of our strategic investment in AI-enabled engineering platforms, Aras is expanding InnovatorEdge to support agentic AI, API-driven extensibility, and modern application development across the digital engineering ecosystem. Our AI platform enables customers and partners to build, deploy, and govern AI-powered capabilities directly within the PLM environment.

At Aras, our culture is open, collaborative, and people-centered. We value continuous learning, encourage innovation, and provide an environment where individuals can shape meaningful and rewarding career paths.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our AI Platform engineering group, responsible for building the foundational platform capabilities that enable development and operation of AI-powered services and agents across the Aras ecosystem, while also helping drive AI adoption across engineering by enabling teams to effectively leverage AI technologies and platform capabilities in product development.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a leader for AI adoption across Engineering, helping teams identify opportunities to leverage AI technologies and enabling safe and effective adoption of AI capabilities, tools, and development practices across the organization.
• Own end-to-end delivery for a defined product area, ensuring scope, schedule, quality, and compliance with engineering and security standards; proactively track progress, risks, and dependencies, and escalate early when needed.
• Lead multiple agile teams (typically 2–3) to deliver high-quality outcomes while coordinating work across shared resources such as architects, SMEs, and external partners; prioritize and sequence work, negotiate availability, and resolve conflicts.
• Partner closely with Product Management to align backlog priorities with roadmap commitments and ensure predictable execution.
• Own capacity planning and allocation across strategic initiatives, operational work, technical debt, and discovery activities (PoCs/spikes); continuously optimize for focus, minimize context switching, and adjust allocations as scope evolves.
• Act as the primary delivery contact for group-level matters; clearly communicate delivery status, risks, blockers, trade-offs, and capacity constraints to stakeholders.
• Line-manage the engineering group, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, coaching, feedback, and fostering overall team health and engage