Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning

The role

You will build and manage a team of machine learning and software engineers. The role involves solving problems related to ingesting engineering design data through agent development, classical ML, and data tracking systems.

What you will do

• Own people leadership including hiring, onboarding, mentorship, career growth, and performance
• Stay technically hands-on as a player-coach
• Participate in design reviews and contribute directly to work
• Set technical direction and headcount investment in partnership with engineers and technical leads
• Build and maintain evaluation and annotation tooling
• Work across ML and software engineering to ship model development and product together
• Ensure engineers are engaged and set up to do their best work

Required qualifications

• 2-5+ years of engineering management experience leading machine learning engineering teams in production
• Experience in machine learning, computer vision (detection/segmentation), multimodal image+text models, LLM based systems, and/or data engineering
• Strong judgment on organizational design
• Production deployment ownership of ML systems including accuracy, cost, and latency
• Experience building or leading teams that build LLM or VLM based agents
• Experience designing evaluations for non-deterministic systems
• Track record of running a healthy team with clear expectations and direct feedback
• Excellent communication and cross-functional partnership skills

Nice to have

• Strong sense of connecting technical work and product development to business outcomes
• Heavy interest in manufacturing
• A track record of scaling a team through a period of fast headcount growth
• Experience mentoring engineers to grow into broader technical leadership roles

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

Before you apply

• To conform to ITAR you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

About the company

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing. They help aerospace and defense companies build mission-critical systems faster and at lower cost.