Senior Engineering Manager San Francisco, California, United States

Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 13, 2024

Job Description:

Primer exists to make the world a safer place. We do this by providing trusted decision-ready AI to the world's most critical organizations. Our software enables leaders, operators, and analysts to better understand the changing world around us in real time and make informed decisions when the stakes are high. Primer has offices in San Francisco, Pasadena, CA, and Arlington, VA. For more information, please visit .As Senior Engineering Manager, you will oversee the development of new AI and ML features for our Delta knowledge management platform. You will be responsible for cultivating accurate estimations of work and motivating a group of talented software engineers across multiple disciplines (ML, BE, FE). Additionally, you will take the lead on building new or updating existing model-driven capabilities, working cross-functionally with teams in Product, Design, and Data Science to solve technical challenges using our natural language processing and machine learning technology.We believe in creating an environment that encourages and creates opportunities for growth. Whether it's helping create and contribute to a set of architectural principles or proposing new processes or best practices, we need engineering managers that have remained hands-on and technical to help ensure things run smoothly, at a sustainable but robust pace. This role requires a unique blend of technical expertise, leadership skills, and a deep understanding of AI and ML applications.Roles and Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of software engineers, aligned toward a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Facilitate discussions of scope and timing, accountable for timely execution at high quality. You own arriving at an estimate and will be held to the actual.
• Work with machine learning engineers and data scientists to extend the platform's capabilities to new models and algorithms while overseeing performance metrics.
• Partner with Product Management to build functionality atop an extensible system design that you help develop, one that aids in predictability, delivery time, and reliability.Relevant Skills and Experience
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience leading enterprise software technical projects end-to-end in an agile environment on any major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc).
  • Experience with ingesting massive datasets, and leveraging techniques for event and topic detection, relation extraction, summarization, entity recognition, document classification, multilingual NLP, and knowledge base generation.
  • Experience with working with distributed systems and deploying AI/ML models in production environments at scale.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Golang, or Java.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead and inspire a team.Bonus Points
    • Experience in modern generative AI, including language models, transformer architectures, NLP models, and prompting.
    • Mixed leadership experience in both early-stage startups and Big Tech.
    • Active US security clearance.This role will consider applicants out of San Francisco, CA, or Washington, DC.The annual cash compensation range for this position is US$186,000 to US$268,000. Final compensation will be determined based on experience and skills and may vary from the range listed above.Primer works closely with the U.S. defense and intelligence establishment. Any offer of employment is conditioned on an applicant or employee being able to meet any applicable government contract requirements. The company may rescind any offer of employment to an applicant or terminate an employee if the applicant or employee is unable to perform the functions of the position in compliance with applicable government contracts or if an applicant or employee makes a false attestation of compliance.What We OfferWe are a series D funded company with investors from Addition, USIT, Lux Capital, Amplify Partners, Addition Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and others. We are intentional around building a diverse and inclusive team of subject matter experts to better advocate for the needs of our users.We care a lot about our work and about the well-being of our team. We encourage everyone to work at a sustainable pace and have a flexible vacation policy for team members to utilize, Wellness Days, and 100% paid leave for parents of growing families.We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. This includes full medical, dental, and vision coverage, fertility benefits through Carrot, mental health coverage on demand with Headspace Care+, Gympass+ Membership via Wellhub, One Medical Membership, 401(k), remote work stipends, and monthly internet allowance.Primer is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Please see the United States Department of Labor's EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at info@primer.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Apply for this job* indicates a required fieldFirst Name *Last Name *Email *PhoneResume/CV *Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf
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