Engineering Manager, Agent Orchestration
$280k - $430k • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 7mo ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Decagon is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Agent Orchestration team, a critical group responsible for the runtime and control plane powering all agent interactions. This highly technical, player/coach role involves coordinating model reasoning, tool use, and evaluation in production, while owning the technical strategy and delivery for the orchestration engine. The ideal candidate will have strong people leadership, the ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces, and the technical depth to drive correctness and operational excellence. You will be responsible for hiring and developing a high-performing team, staying close to architecture, debugging, and reliability, and partnering with Research, Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Agent SWE to translate frontier model improvements into predictable, safe, and scalable agent behavior.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of engineers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for Decagon’s orchestration engine, balancing speed of iteration with correctness and safety.
- Drive architecture for systems that coordinate complex reasoning and action flows at scale.
- Set reliability, testing, and observability standards across the orchestration stack, and build an operating cadence that prevents repeated incidents.
- Create frameworks and guardrails that enable fast, safe iteration on agent behavior, evaluation, and rollout.
- Partner with Product, Research, and Infrastructure teams to define requirements, navigate tradeoffs, and ship multi-quarter initiatives that move core company metrics.
Requirements
- 2+ years of engineering management experience leading high performing teams in fast-moving environments.
- Strong technical depth and an IC foundation enabling guidance on architecture, debugging complex failures, and making sound trade-offs.
- Experience building distributed systems, execution engines, real-time platforms, or other high scale systems where correctness and reliability matter.
- Track record of delivering multi-quarter projects through ambiguity, creating clarity for your team and stakeholders.
- Commitment to engineering craft and operational excellence, including testing strategy, observability, and incident learning.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills across Product, Research, and Infrastructure teams.
- Experience with agent frameworks, runtimes, orchestration logic, or tool use systems (preferred).
- Experience with evaluation, experimentation, or model quality measurement systems (preferred).
- Experience building guardrails for safety-critical or highly reliable systems (preferred).
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
- Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
- Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
- Parental Leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Monthly stipend to support your wellness, lifestyle, and work-life balance
- Daily lunches and snacks in the office
- Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)