Senior AI Engineering Lead — Equity, Hybrid NYC

SR2; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid working – NYC

Healthcare: 100% company-paid medical,

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Home office stipend

Daily office lunch and dinner

Commuter benefits

Technical ownership

Career growth

Job summary

SR2, a rapidly growing Series B Applied AI startup, seeks an Engineering Manager with a strong AI background to lead production-grade agentic systems in New York. You will own the engineering roadmap, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product to deliver AI capabilities.

Responsibilities span architecture, multi-agent infrastructure, performance, reliability, and hands-on coding as needed while scaling the team in a high-growth setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Software/AI engineering experience.
• At least 1 year of engineering leadership or management experience.
• Direct experience building and shipping production AI or agentic systems.
• Hands-on experience with AI infrastructure, agent orchestration, and LLM-powered applications.
• Experience building evaluation frameworks, including golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, human annotation, or online monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team building production-grade AI and agentic systems.
• Own the technical architecture behind AI agents, including orchestration, model serving, latency, cost optimisation, and failure handling.
• Design and scale multi-agent evaluation infrastructure, including LLM-as-judge pipelines, golden datasets, and human annotation tooling.
• Drive the development of internal tooling to test, evaluate, and improve agent performance.
• Establish engineering best practices around reliability, observability, scalability, and production performance.
• Work closely with Product and Engineering leadership to define technical direction and deliver the AI roadmap.
• Remain hands-on with architecture, system design, code reviews, and complex technical decisions.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers, building a high-performing AI engineering function.

Skills

AI engineering

Software engineering

System design

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Performance optimization

Job description

SR2, a rapidly growing Series B Applied AI startup, seeks an Engineering Manager with a strong AI background to lead production-grade agentic systems in New York. You will own the engineering roadmap, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product to deliver AI capabilities.

Responsibilities span architecture, multi-agent infrastructure, performance, reliability, and hands-on coding as needed while scaling the team in a high-growth setting.