# Software Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed at AIR

- Company: AIR
- What the company does: AIR secures your agent fleet and filters every AI add-on before it enters your enterprise. Continuous vetting, governance, and runtime protection for safe AI adoption. Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.air.security/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Arlington, Virginia, United States; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-06-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/air/jobs/4241524009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/air-software-engineering-manager-forward-deployed/

## About the role

Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Our mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved. Today, a dangerous Readiness Gap exists between what the front line needs and what is delivered. Our AI-native platform, Air Enterprise Readiness, aligns development, production, delivery, and sustainment into one coordinated execution system for government agencies and industrial suppliers.

## What they're looking for

- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of external or internal customer-facing, complex, and large scale project management experience
- Minimum of 5 years of software development management with object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Java, C++, Python, C#, or Ruby)
- 2+ years of people management
- Thorough understanding of microservice architecture

Tags: Forward Deployed