Decagon
Engineering Manager, Agent Orchestration
$280K
San Francisco · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Feb 10, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of engineering management experience.
About the job
Leads the team building Decagon’s agent orchestration engine, which coordinates model reasoning, tool use, and evaluation for reliable, safe customer conversations.
What you'll do
- Hire, coach, and manage a high-performing engineering team.
- Set technical strategy and architecture for the orchestration engine, balancing iteration speed, correctness, and safety.
- Establish reliability, testing, and observability practices and partner across teams to deliver major initiatives.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams.
- Strong technical depth and an individual-contributor foundation for architecture guidance, debugging, and trade-offs.
- Experience building distributed systems, execution engines, real-time platforms, or other high-scale systems where correctness and reliability matter.
- Track record delivering multi-quarter projects through ambiguity.
Nice to have
- Experience with agent frameworks, runtimes, orchestration logic, or tool-use systems.
- Experience with evaluation, experimentation, model quality measurement, or safety guardrails.
Pay
$280,000 - $430, USD base salary
AI focus
Leads development of the runtime and control plane that orchestrate AI-agent reasoning, model selection, tool calls, evaluations, safety guardrails, and production behavior.
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