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Engineering Manager, Research

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $280,000–$280,000🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead and grow a team of research engineers to develop the model and decision-making stack for conversational AI agents, focusing on post-training, evaluation, safety, speech, and agent behavior.

Role type

Engineering Manager, Research

Builds

Conversational AI agents for enterprise support

Domain

Conversational AI, Large Language Models, Speech

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning systems design, model post-training, model evaluation, speech technology, agent behavior modeling, team leadership, technical roadmap planning, experimental rigor, cross-functional partnership

Preferred skills

Influential research publication, open-source contributions, production ML systems with significant real-world impact

Technologies

Foundation models, conversational agents, speech systems

Responsibilities

Build and develop a high-performing team of research engineers; Own the technical direction and roadmap for the research area; Translate open-ended research directions into focused programs with clear milestones; Stay close to technical work through architecture reviews and debugging; Set high bars for experimental rigor and safe model rollouts; Partner across infrastructure, product, and customer-facing teams to move research into production

Seniority

Manager, hands-on technical leadership

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