Engineering Manager, AI Research & Systems

Neura Market; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 280,000 - 430,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

401K / Pension

Parental Leave

Fertility benefits

Wellness stipend

Daily lunches

Vacation policy

Job summary

Decagon is seeking a manager to lead and grow a team within Decagon Research. You'll own the team and technical roadmap for an area spanning model post-training, evaluation, safety, speech, or agent behavior, driving ambitious ideas from research to reliable production impact.

Managers here operate with high ownership and technical depth while helping their teams move quickly and maintain a high quality bar.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience building machine-learning systems involving language models, speech, agents, or model infrastructure.
• 1+ years of people management experience, with a strong individual-contributor background.
• Deep experience post-training, evaluating, deploying, or serving foundation models at scale.
• Strong technical judgment and a track record of translating ambiguous research ideas into measurable product outcomes.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing technical talent, with clear communication across research, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of research engineers through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Own the technical direction and roadmap for your area, prioritizing the highest-leverage investments across models, evaluation, safety, speech, and agent systems.
• Turn open-ended research directions into focused programs with clear hypotheses, milestones, decisions, and measures of production impact.
• Stay close to the technical work through architecture and experiment reviews, debugging, and individual contribution.
• Set a high bar for experimental rigor, reproducibility, evaluation quality, engineering execution, and safe model rollouts.
• Partner across Infrastructure, Agent Platform, Product Engineering, Product, and customer-facing teams to move research into production.

Skills

Team leadership

Machine learning

Post-training evaluation

Technical judgment

Hiring & coaching

Job description

Decagon is seeking a manager to lead and grow a team within Decagon Research. You'll own the team and technical roadmap for an area spanning model post-training, evaluation, safety, speech, or agent behavior, driving ambitious ideas from research to reliable production impact.

Managers here operate with high ownership and technical depth while helping their teams move quickly and maintain a high quality bar.