# Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform

**Company:** [Duolingo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/duolingo)
**Location:** New York, NY, Pittsburgh, PA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $204k – $306k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, AI Infrastructure, Ai Evaluation, Llm-As-A-Judge, Human-In-The-Loop, Data Pipelines, Prompt Optimization, APIs, Mcps, Web Guis
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Leads the AI Tooling and Ecosystem Team, building evaluation, dataset, workflow, and platform systems that enable product teams to develop AI-powered features. Requires engineering management experience, AI infrastructure or product expertise, and strong cross-functional leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the AI Tooling and Ecosystem Team and develop tools and services that enable product teams to build AI-powered features and workflows.
- Design and manage systems for AI datasets, prompts, evaluations, and workflows, including human and LLM-as-a-judge feedback.
- Build processes for defining AI success criteria, selecting appropriate models, and creating feedback loops for prompt optimization.
- Streamline AI development workflows for teams with varying levels of AI expertise.
- Collaborate with the AI Core Infrastructure Team to ensure reliable, measurable, and cost-efficient AI workflows.
- Partner with AI, Product, Data Science, and Platform leaders on shared AI tooling and use cases.
- Own multi-quarter roadmaps and cross-functional alignment to increase AI feature velocity and product impact.
- Hire, develop, and retain software and AI engineering talent.

## Requirements
- Experience leading, managing, and building teams of software and/or AI engineers.
- Track record of building AI infrastructure or user-facing AI-powered products.
- Familiarity with AI evaluation methods, particularly human and LLM-as-a-judge evaluations.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills.
- Ability to align AI, product, data science, and platform partners on strategy and execution.
- Comfort leading through ambiguity in a fast-evolving AI environment.
- Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.

## Nice-to-haves
- Hands-on experience building evaluation systems and human-in-the-loop data pipelines at scale.
- Experience developing internal platform or infrastructure tools exposed through APIs, MCPs, and web GUIs.
- Experience making build-versus-buy decisions and shaping long-term roadmaps for internal customers.

## Compensation
- Base salary range: $204,000–$306,000 USD.
- Equity compensation supplements the base salary.

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