Engineering Manager, Research
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
