Hiring: Engineering Manager, Research Company: Decagon Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:13:06 Employment Type: Full-time About the job Experience: •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 Required Skills: •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. •Managers here operate with high ownership and technical depth while helping their teams move quickly and maintain a high quality bar. You’ll create clarity in ambiguous research areas, develop exceptional engineers, and align the team’s work with the product outcomes that matter most to customers. •In this role, you will •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 Qualifications: •A record of influential research, open-source contributions, or production ML systems with significant real-world impact Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!