LlamaIndex
Technical Lead Manager - Platform Engineering
$200K–$300K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams; no years specified.
About the job
Leads platform engineering execution and technical direction while remaining hands-on with production systems, model training and serving, and customer-facing B2B products.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and setting priorities.
- Set technical direction and deliver a product roadmap with company leadership and product teams.
- Stay hands-on with architecture, code reviews, production debugging, and ML model training, evaluation, and deployment.
What they ask for
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams in B2B SaaS at a scope comparable to a 20–30-person organization.
- Current hands-on production engineering skills, including architecture review and diagnosing complex technical problems.
- Practical familiarity with model serving and training, including fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and production operations.
- Strong background in backend systems, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience scaling engineering at a Series A–C startup.
- Experience with document processing, OCR, extraction, retrieval, indexing, LLMs, multimodal models, or GPU infrastructure.
Pay
$200K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
APIs, GPU
AI focus
Works with ML engineers and researchers on model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and production operations; guides model serving decisions involving performance, reliability, and inference cost.
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