Engineering Manager, Research

The role

You will lead and grow a team within Decagon Research. You will own the technical roadmap for areas such as model post-training, evaluation, safety, speech, or agent behavior.

What you will do

• 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
• 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

Required 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

Nice to have

• A record of influential research, open-source contributions, or production ML systems with significant real-world impact

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
• Take what you need vacation policy

About the company

Decagon is a conversational AI platform that enables enterprises to deploy AI agents across various channels. The company is an in-office company driven by values like Just Get It Done and The Polymath Principle.