Senior Engineering Manager, AI R&D

Bubble is a revolutionary software development platform with a simple mission: make technology accessible to everyone and help people bring their ideas to life. Rather than specializing in one or two aspects of web development, Bubble’s full-stack visual programming interface does it all, allowing you to customize your UX with a drag-and-drop editor, build out logic, manage databases, and integrate with anything via plugins and API. 

With all the tools needed to build a site like Facebook or Airbnb, anyone from first-time entrepreneurs to enterprise-level companies can take an idea from concept to fully functional, scalable reality faster and cheaper than you could with just code. As the only full-stack, no-code platform on the market with over 3 million users in over 100 countries, Bubble is breaking down the barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation across the globe.

What we’ve achieved:

Our product is working, and we are thriving. Entire VC-backed companies have been built entirely on Bubble. After finding product market fit and 8 years of bootstrapping, we raised a $100 million Series A and we’re one of the fastest-growing companies in the New York tech ecosystem. 

You can build just about anything on Bubble. For example, all new hires build Bubble apps as part of their onboarding, and a recent hire on our Customer Success team built their own version of the social media application Goodreads in 4 days. It has user authentication, an activity feed, upvotes, commenting, followers, lists, account management, live updates, a fully loaded database, API connectivity, and more.

About the AI Team:

Bubble’s AI team is driving a new era in app development with Bubble Assist—an ambitious feature that aims to make Bubble the first platform to enable end-to-end AI-generated app builds that are truly production-ready, scalable, and deployable. Our team is at the forefront of combining generative AI with no-code development, creating solutions that empower users to build complex applications without any coding experience. Working on Bubble Assist means tackling high-impact projects that not only redefine user experience but also push the boundaries of what's possible in the industry.

As we accelerate our growth in 2025, the AI team will play a pivotal role in staying ahead of the competition and delivering on our vision of democratizing access to advanced technology. Joining this team means being part of a fast-paced, high-stakes environment where your contributions will be critical in shaping the future of no-code development and redefining the app-building landscape.

About the Role:

As our Senior Engineering Manager on the AI team, you will be directly responsible for the development and launch of our new AI product, Bubble Assist. This an extremely high value, high visibility project within the company. There is already significant anticipation across our user base for the launch of this product. You will report directly to the CEO. This product will unlock the potential of no code developers to release their applications without any prior coding experience. We believe that this is a force multiplier for our company, and a game changer for the industry. 

As our Senior Engineering Manager, you will focus on:

• Speed and quality of delivery – collaborate with Product and Design to make our launch a success, and establish a multi-year roadmap of improvements to build a fully mature, robust offering.

• Career development and hiring – we’re building a diverse team of 7 high performing engineers; help expand, uplevel, and promote them to set us up for long term success.

• Cultural development – help build an engineering culture of shared success and shared failure, driving inclusion, equity, and continuous learning.

• Problem solving – building a new product from scratch with an existing codebase and institutional knowledge is challenging. We will look to you to help us develop an entirely new product for our ecosystem, while operating within the engineering principles and frameworks that we’ve already developed.

• Strategic collaboration - work closely with product managers, engineering managers, leadership, and senior/staff engineers to align the AI team with other product teams and help deliver results for Bubble as a whole.

• Technical innovation – help us push the envelope of how easy and fast it is to develop integrated generative AI into the design process.

About you:

• Most qualified candidates will be a current staff/principal engineer, tech lead, engineering manager, or senior engineering manager, with at least 2 years of people management experience. Experience managing people is required. You’ll have at least 10 years of professional experience, in addition to your management experience. 

• You are a great fit if you have prior experience as a leader on an AI or Machine Learning driven product.

• We are looking for a deeply technical leader comfortable with a diversity of stacks. While no specific technologies are a hard requirement, we value prior experience with training and operating ML models, ML research experience, as well as full-stack web development in Typescript and Node. 

This first-of-its-kind position at Bubble offers a rare opportunity to help an industry-leading company launch a highly-anticipated product. If you are looking for a role that will help you grow your career as a technology leader of the future, this is the perfect role for you.

Compensation:

We offer competitive compensation aligned to tier one markets, such as New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle. Our estimated salary for this role at Bubble ranges from $192,000 to $260,000. Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and market demand.

Location:

For this role, Bubble is currently only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the US and are within the New York City metro area. We will provide relocation assistance to those who are interested in moving to the NYC area.

We prefer hiring people within commuting distance of our NYC office because we value getting together in person regularly. For those who enjoy working from our Manhattan office on a more regular basis, we offer catered lunches, and happy hours, among other fun perks.

Benefits:

In addition to cash and equity compensation, Bubble offers a robust benefits package equating to roughly twenty thousand in additional annual compensation:

Our benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Comprehensive health coverage

• 401(k) Matching

• Wellness and Work Enablement stipends

• Flexible PTO

• A Sabbatical program

Join us!

Let’s democratize access to technology together! If this sounds like you, apply! If you don’t meet all of the qualifications but think you could be a match, we’d still love the chance to review your application. At Bubble, we encourage people from all ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Bubble does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Compensation Range: $192K - $260K