# Technical Lead Manager, AI Platform at Ironclad

- Company: Ironclad
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Sequoia and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.ironcladapp.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $188K to $235K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ironcladhq/d8ab34e8-fddb-426d-8cda-da32b64bc366
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ironclad-technical-lead-manager-ai-platform/

## 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

Tags: Engineering, Product & Design