Generative AI Platform Tech Lead Manager

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Equity awards

401(k) with match

Wellbeing stipends

Parental leave

Mental health support

Commuter benefits

Team events

Job summary

Ironclad in San Francisco is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to guide a team building production generative AI systems. You will blend hands-on technical leadership with people management, shaping the team's technical direction while growing engineers on the team.

You will own the roadmap, work with product, and directly contribute high-impact design and code when needed. The role requires deep ML/LLM expertise and a track record of shipping reliable AI systems.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams as a manager, with a track record of shipping production systems.
• Strong technical background in generative AI / LLM-based systems, with enough expertise to provide the technical depth and direction where the team needs.
• Able to work directly as a technical contributor, creating design and implementing solutions.
• Experience operating production ML/LLM systems: eval-driven development, monitoring for both reliability and output quality, and staged rollouts.
• Past experience in NLP, content/document understanding, search/retrieval, Agent framework or LLM training infra/frameworks.
• Track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers, and of navigating performance and leveling conversations directly.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills — comfortable setting a technical roadmap in a room with product, other engineering leads, and company leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers, balancing hands-on technical leadership with people support.
• Own the technical roadmap and quality bar for your team's systems.
• Own the business outcome. Partner with product management and work across teams to translate customer and business needs into technical deliverables.
• Personally contribute direct technical output: write design docs, drive key architectural decisions, and write production code yourself for the highest-leverage or highest-risk problems.
• Stay close to the architecture and technical details of what your team builds well enough to review design decisions, unblock engineers, and make prioritization calls.
• Set and uphold engineering standards: code quality, testing, eval-driven development, and production monitoring for both reliability and output quality.
• Manage prioritization and tradeoffs across competing priorities, and coordinate closely with adjacent teams whose work depends on yours.
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; run performance and career development for direct reports.

Skills

Team leadership

Gen AI systems

LLM integration

Production ML

Cross-functional work

Architectural design

Job description

Ironclad in San Francisco is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to guide a team building production generative AI systems. You will blend hands-on technical leadership with people management, shaping the team's technical direction while growing engineers on the team.

You will own the roadmap, work with product, and directly contribute high-impact design and code when needed. The role requires deep ML/LLM expertise and a track record of shipping reliable AI systems.