Senior Manager, Applied AI Systems

Relativity; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity is a data-centered, AI-native legal technology company. We seek a Senior Manager, Applied Science to lead a team expanding the aiR agentic harness for greater capability and reliability.

You will hire, coach, set direction, and develop people toward their best work. You will own AI system readiness end-to-end—from framing the problem through evaluation, error analysis, and production monitoring—so what ships is dependable and defensible.

Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in computer science or a quantitative discipline (or equivalent) and at least 6 years in applied AI/ML, including 1 year as a people leader.
• Deep applied AI/ML and deployment engineering experience: built production-ready AI systems and kept them running.
• Fluency with modern generative AI as part of larger systems and strong judgment about reliability.
• Machine-learning rigor with careful evaluation, error analysis, and data-supported conclusions.
• Strong software-engineering judgment and programming skill.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of applied scientists: hire, coach, set direction, and develop people toward their best work.
• Set the technical and scientific bar; shape architectures, review designs, and tackle hard problems alongside the team.
• Own AI system readiness end-to-end from framing the problem to evaluation and production monitoring.
• Choose the right problems, from agentic assistants to large-scale review, with focus on reliability across many documents.
• Partner with product, engineering, design, customer-facing teams, and legal experts to take ideas from proof-of-concept to production.
• Communicate with precision to leadership, team, and customers; translate technical nuance into actionable decisions.
• Represent Relativity at industry conferences, events, and with customers.

Job description

Relativity is a data-centered, AI-native legal technology company. We seek a Senior Manager, Applied Science to lead a team expanding the aiR agentic harness for greater capability and reliability.

You will hire, coach, set direction, and develop people toward their best work. You will own AI system readiness end-to-end—from framing the problem through evaluation, error analysis, and production monitoring—so what ships is dependable and defensible.