Manager, AI Engineering

The role

This person will lead and grow a small technical team while performing hands-on engineering and research. They will build agentic capabilities, set technical direction, and translate AI research into production-ready software features.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a small, highly technical team while remaining deeply involved in hands-on engineering and research.
• Set technical direction and establish practical plans for execution.
• Create new agentic capabilities including frameworks for monitoring, guardrailing, and evaluating agents.
• Perform classical ML tasks including exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and model fine-tuning.
• Work closely with Product and Research to translate AI research into applicable features.
• Contribute production-ready code and technical designs.

Required qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science or related field with exposure to AI/ML.
• Deep expertise in AI/ML, software engineering, or AI security.
• Strong programming skills in Python, and relevant ML and/or agentic frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and collaboratively with a high degree of end-to-end ownership.
• Ability to pick up other programming languages and technologies as required.

Nice to have

• PhD in Computer Science or related field with focus on AI/ML or similar.
• Hands-on experience with agent orchestration, agent harnesses, agent teams, jailbreaking / prompt injection, red teaming, data poisoning or evasion attacks, secure model deployment or sandboxing, dete
• Experience contributing to open source projects.
• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Experience in cybersecurity is a plus

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions
• Retirement savings with company matching
• Paid parental leave
• Inclusive family-building benefits
• Flexible paid time off
• Company-wide seasonal breaks
• Support for flexible work arrangements
• Access to internal learning and development programs

About the company

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022.