Engineering Manager, Research Productivity

Responsibilities

• Prioritize the team’s work in collaboration with the technical lead, research teams, and product teams to support fast iteration on research projects and training runs.
• Design processes (eg, postmortem review, incident response, on‑call rotations) that help the team operate effectively.
• Coach and support your reports to understand and pursue their professional growth.
• Run the team’s recruiting efforts efficiently, ensuring we can grow as quickly as we need through a period of rapid growth.

• Believe that advanced AI systems could have a transformative effect on the world and are interested in helping make sure that transformation goes well.
• Are an experienced manager (at least 2 years) and actively enjoy people management.
• Are a quick study: this team sits at the intersection of a large number of different complex technical systems that you’ll need to understand at a high level to be effective.
• Experience working with research teams, especially as part of a “research to production” pipeline.
• Strong people management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, career development.
• Strong project management skills: prioritization, communicating across team/org boundaries.
• Experience recruiting for your team: predicting staffing needs, designing interview loops, evaluating candidates, and closing them.

• Minimum education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
• Minimum years of experience:
  Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.

None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

$405,000—$850,000 USD

We expect all staff to be in our San Francisco office at least 25% of the time. Some roles may require more frequent presence in our offices.

We sponsor visas and will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa for candidates who receive an offer.