Snorkel AI

Senior Manager, Applied AI Research

Snorkel AI

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $250,000 - $320,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

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About the role

  • 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

  • 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
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
applied AImachine learningcodingdata-centric techniquesLLMsagentic workflowdata annotation workflowsinternal tooling
Soft Skills
team buildingleadershipproblem solvingcross-functional collaborationadaptabilitycustomer engagement