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Technical Lead Manager, AI Platform

Ironclad · San Francisco · Remote

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About Ironclad

Backed by Accel, Sequoia and Y Combinator.

About the role

We're looking for a Tech Lead Manager to lead a team of engineers building production generative AI systems. You'll combine hands-on technical leadership with people management, setting the technical direction for the team while growing the engineers on it. Lead and grow a team of engineers, balancing hands-on technical leadership with people support.

What they're looking for

  • Proven experience leading engineering teams as a manager, with a track record of shipping production systems
  • Strong technical background in generative AI / LLM-based systems, with enough expertise to provide the technical depth and direction where the team needs
  • Able to work directly as a technical contributor, creating design and implementing solutions
  • Experience operating production ML/LLM systems: eval-driven development, monitoring for both reliability and output quality, and staged rollouts
  • Past experience in one or more of the following areas: NLP, content/document understanding, search/retrieval, Agent framework or LLM training infra/frameworks
  • Track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers, and of navigating performance and leveling conversations directly
More about this role

Build AI contracting at enterprise scale. Ship it fast.

Ironclad is building AI on one of the most consequential datasets in enterprise software: over 2 billion contracts across thousands of the world's largest organizations. Contracts run every dollar, deal, and business relationship on the planet, and the AI transformation of this space is still largely uncharted. Engineers here are building agentic solutions to problems that haven't been solved yet, in a category that's still being defined. The feedback loop is short, the data is rich, and the people closest to the work are the ones deciding what gets built next. That ability to deliver impact quickly is why the the companies at the forefront of AI choose Ironclad to manage their contracts.

We’re consistently recognized as a leader in the industry: a Leader in the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecycle Management, a Fortune Great Place to Work, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Workplaces. Ironclad has also been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Business Insider’s list of Companies to Bet Your Career On. We’re backed by leading investors including Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, BOND, and Franklin...

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