Engineering Manager, Machine Learning

Runway; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a dynamic team focused on developing cutting-edge machine learning features for creative tools. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of media creation by leveraging AI technologies. You will be responsible for building a high-performing team and deploying state-of-the-art ML systems. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and creativity, and make a significant impact in the world of generative media. If you're passionate about AI and leadership, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a team lead or engineering manager role.
• Strong background in impactful machine learning projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead a talented ML team to push AI-based content creation boundaries.
• Develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning systems.

Skills

Machine Learning

Team Leadership

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Prototyping

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Runway is an applied research company pioneering new tools for human imagination. Runway has been at the forefront of multi-modal AI systems ensuring that the future of media creation is accessible, controllable and empowering for creatives. Runway’s mission is to ensure that anyone anywhere can tell their stories. We believe that deep learning techniques applied to audiovisual content will forever change art, creativity and design tools.

Runway is leading a shift to generative media that is unlocking an unprecedented level of creative potential. The invention of the camera 200 years ago forever changed our world – AI is a new kind of camera that will reshape storytelling forever.

About the role

*Open to hiring remote across North America and Europe — we also have offices in NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, and London

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to help manage a new team that is focused on productionizing new ML-based features to power Runway’s set of creative tools. You should have experience growing high-performing engineering teams and be deeply interested in the intersection of machine learning and systems design.

What you’ll do

• Lead a talented ML team and keep pushing the boundaries of AI-based content creation
• Develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning systems to production
• Work weekly with leadership and the engineering team as a whole to review and set priority around goals
• Build a team of skilled engineers from diverse backgrounds

What you’ll need

• 2+ years of experience in a team lead or engineering manager role
• 4+ years of industry experience in an engineering and/or research role
• Strong background building impactful and novel machine learning projects, ideally with expertise in large scale, distributed training
• Experience training diffusion models or LLM's from scratch
• Solid knowledge of at least one machine learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow)
• Empathetic and inclusive leadership style
• Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them with tight product deadlines
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.