Engineering Manager, Research

Job summary

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a manager to lead and grow a team within Decagon Research. You’ll own the team and technical roadmap for an area spanning model post-training, evaluation, safety, speech, or agent behavior, driving ambitious ideas from research to reliable production impact.

• 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

What they're looking for

• 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