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Engineering Manager, Research

Decagon· Engineering
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San Francisco, New York City$280k - $430kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Manager to lead and grow a research engineering team within Decagon Research, owning the team and technical roadmap for areas spanning model post-training, evaluation, safety, speech, or agent behavior, driving ideas from research to production impact.

Responsibilities

  • Build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of research engineers through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development
  • Own the technical direction and roadmap for your area, prioritizing the highest-leverage investments across models, evaluation, safety, speech, and agent systems
  • Turn open-ended research directions into focused programs with clear hypotheses, milestones, decisions, and measures of production impact
  • Stay close to the technical work through architecture and experiment reviews, debugging, and individual contribution
  • Set a high bar for experimental rigor, reproducibility, evaluation quality, engineering execution, and safe model rollouts
  • Partner across Infrastructure, Agent Platform, Product Engineering, Product, and customer-facing teams to move research into production

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of industry experience building machine-learning systems involving language models, speech, agents, or model infrastructure
  • 1+ years of people management experience, with a strong individual-contributor background
  • Deep experience post-training, evaluating, deploying, or serving foundation models at scale
  • Strong technical judgment and a track record of translating ambiguous research ideas into measurable product outcomes
  • Experience hiring, coaching, and developing technical talent, with clear communication across research, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders

Skills

Required:Team leadership and people managementTechnical roadmap and program managementPost-training evaluation and deployment of foundation models

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
  • Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
  • Parental Leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Monthly stipend to support your wellness, lifestyle, and work-life balance
  • Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best
  • Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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