Genius AI
Senior Engineering Manager, Applied AI
$240K–$300K
NYC +1 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- NYC
San Francisco - Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering, including 2+ years managing.
About the job
Leads and hands-on builds an internal Applied AI team that develops and transfers AI solutions to business teams, with a focus on measurable go-to-market outcomes.
What you'll do
- Manage and grow a lean engineering team while personally prototyping and building AI systems.
- Prioritize and deliver cross-functional AI initiatives tied to agreed business metrics, with demos and handoffs to partner teams.
- Establish AI evaluation practices and model-selection approaches, and share effective AI engineering practices across the company.
What they ask for
- Personally built and shipped agentic systems with real users within the last 12 months.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineers while remaining hands-on.
- Experience working within a Sales, Marketing, or Operations workflow and helping the team adopt a new solution.
- Ability to connect engineering work to business outcomes and report results clearly.
Pay
$240K – $300K (base salary)
AI focus
Build and ship agentic systems for business workflows; evaluate frontier and open-weight models, establish measurable quality evaluations, and improve AI-native engineering practices.
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