Engineering Manager, Machine Learning

1 Month ago • 4 Years + • Research Development • $360,000 PA - $440,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

We are a global AI research and technology company focused on building Universal Simulation systems, aiming to empower everyone to create anything with no barriers. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a new team focused on productionizing new ML-based features for creative tools. The role involves leading an ML team, developing and deploying state-of-the-art machine learning systems, working with leadership on priorities, and building a diverse team of skilled engineers. The company values open-mindedness, creativity, and ambition, aspiring to build impossible things.
Must have:
  • 2+ years of experience in a team lead/manager role
  • 4+ years of industry experience
  • Strong background in ML projects
  • Experience with distributed training
  • Familiarity with PyTorch or Tensorflow
  • Empathetic and inclusive leadership
  • Rapid prototyping skills
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Experience training diffusion models or LLMs from scratch

Job Details

We are a global AI research and technology company focused on building Universal Simulation systems. The research we are doing and the tools we are building are maturing rapidly and are quickly becoming the foundation for how we will all soon approach making anything. From images to videos, scripted media to documentaries, graphic design to architecture, interactive games to social media, new forms of learning and the future of entertainment itself. Everyone will be empowered to make anything. There will no longer be any barriers to entry.

Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.

About the role

*Open to hiring remote across North America and Europe — we also have offices in NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, London, and Tel Aviv

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to help manage a new team that is focused on productionizing new ML-based features to power Runway’s set of creative tools. You should have experience growing high-performing engineering teams and be deeply interested in the intersection of machine learning and systems design.

What you’ll do

  • Lead a talented ML team and keep pushing the boundaries of AI-based content creation
  • Develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning systems to production
  • Work weekly with leadership and the engineering team as a whole to review and set priority around goals
  • Build a team of skilled engineers from diverse backgrounds

What you’ll need

  • 2+ years of experience in a team lead or engineering manager role
  • 4+ years of industry experience in an engineering and/or research role
  • Strong background building impactful and novel machine learning projects, ideally with expertise in large scale, distributed training
  • Experience training diffusion models or LLM's from scratch 
  • Solid knowledge of at least one machine learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow)
  • Empathetic and inclusive leadership style
  • Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them with tight product deadlines
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $360,000-$440,000

Working at Runway

Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

More about Runway

We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work Crain's | InHerSight | BuiltIn NYC | INC

 

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