Hadrian
Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning
$299K–$359K
Los Angeles, CA · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Experience
- 2-5+ years of engineering management experience leading machine learning engineering teams in production.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations under ITAR.
About the job
Leads and develops a machine learning and software engineering team building systems that interpret engineering drawings and CAD data for manufacturing automation.
What you'll do
- Hire, mentor, and manage engineers, including onboarding, career growth, and performance.
- Stay technically hands-on, set technical direction, and allocate team resources with engineering leads.
- Build evaluation and annotation tools and coordinate ML development with product software delivery.
What they ask for
- 2-5+ years of engineering management experience leading production machine learning engineering teams.
- Strong technical depth in machine learning, computer vision, multimodal image+text models, LLM-based systems, and/or data engineering.
- Owned production ML deployments and their accuracy, cost, and latency; experience leading LLM or VLM agent teams and designing evaluations for non-deterministic systems.
- Strong organizational judgment, team leadership, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills.
Nice to have
- Connect technical and product work to business outcomes; interest or exposure to manufacturing.
- Experience scaling teams through rapid growth and mentoring engineers into technical leadership.
Pay
$299,000 - $359,000 USD base salary
Tools
machine learning, computer vision, multimodal image+text models, LLM based systems, data engineering, LLM, VLM
AI focus
Lead development of agents and classical ML systems that interpret engineering drawings and CAD models; build evaluation, annotation, and feedback tools for model outputs.
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