Senior Manager, Engineering - Hivemind Reasoning (R6291)

About the role

We are looking for a leader with not only the deep technical expertise or the abilities to build a world-class team, but also someone with the strong conviction that AI will protect service members and civilians. This role is responsible for building and leading a team that researches and designs models, establishes training pipelines and rigorous evaluations, and ensures mission effectiveness at the edge under real-world constraints. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

• Exceptional track record of leading the development and deployment of state-of-the-art ML models in production environments, making difficult prioritisation decisions, and communicating tradeoffs across disciplines
• 5+ years of people management experience leading engineering or applied research teams, with demonstrated success hiring, coaching, developing technical leaders, and managing performance
• Deep expertise in foundation models, modern deep learning, model architectures, and the training ecosystem
• Strong command of training and adaptation approaches such as self-supervised learning, supervised fine-tuning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and distillation
• Experience defining datasets, training objectives, experimental workflows, benchmarks, and reproducible criteria for comparing models
• Fluency in traditional AI/ML techniques and an ability to combine them thoughtfully with learned models

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