Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform
Core
Lead the development of tools and services that power Duolingo's use of AI in the product, including systems for managing datasets, evaluating AI model performance, and building AI workflows.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform
Builds
Internal AI tooling, datasets management systems, evaluation frameworks, and AI workflows for product teams
Domain
EdTech / Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering team leadership, hiring and talent development, AI product or infrastructure building, cross-functional strategy alignment, roadmap ownership, ambiguity navigation
Preferred skills
Building evaluation systems and human-in-the-loop data pipelines at scale, developing internal tools via APIs/MCPs/web GUIs, navigating build vs. buy decisions
Technologies
LLM-as-a-judge, MCPs, APIs, web GUIs
Responsibilities
Drive development of tools empowering product teams to build AI features; Manage shared systems for AI datasets, prompts, and evaluations; Build processes for defining success criteria and feedback loops; Streamline AI development flows for teams of varying expertise; Partner with AI, Product, Data Science, and Platform leaders; Own multi-quarter roadmaps for AI feature velocity
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities