Senior Manager, Applied AI Research

Snorkel AI

Senior Manager leading a team focusing on data-centric research for AI development at Snorkel AI. Collaborating with researchers to bridge cutting-edge research with real-world AI applications.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $250,000 - $320,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Team Building & Leadership: Recruit for and lead a team of applied researchers, setting the team’s culture and setting a high standard for quality and velocity
Frontier Data Research: Collaborate with academic and industry-leading AI labs to define the data-centric techniques that will help power the next generation of foundation models.
Strategic Roadmapping: Anticipate the next bottlenecks in the AI data (e.g., automated RLHF, agentic evaluation, or specialized model alignment) and pivot the team to develop the programmatic solutions that address them
Operational Excellence: Partner with the Go-to-Market, Operations and Product teams to enhance current state and drive the roadmap for what the company will focus on next

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in applied AI, research or machine learning roles, with at least 4+ years of experience managing technical teams
A player coach who is willing to be hands-on with coding, research, customer-facing engagements
A proven track record of thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, comfortable managing competing priorities across cross-functional stakeholders in Product, Engineering, and GTM
Enjoys solving real-world problems in the data space and bridging research and production
Strong, practical experience working with LLMs, agentic workflow
Bonus: Experience with data annotation workflows and/or building internal tooling for them

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

applied AImachine learningcodingdata-centric techniquesLLMsagentic workflowdata annotation workflowsinternal tooling

Soft Skills

team buildingleadershipproblem solvingcross-functional collaborationadaptabilitycustomer engagement