Senior Manager, Applied AI Research

As Senior Manager, Applied AI Research, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across a portfolio of applied AI initiatives that protect over 500 million users worldwide, spanning Small Language Models, reinforcement learning, agentic systems, computer vision and classical machine learning.

You will shape the architecture, modeling choices and production path for these programs while managing and growing a small team of 3-5 Research Engineers responsible for end-to-end delivery of applied AI, from problem framing and data curation through model training, customization and evaluation to deployment, monitoring and iteration at massive scale.

This role blends technical leadership with people management. You will lead the team technically by setting direction, shaping architectures and staying close to the models and code, while also growing engineers and owning delivery. You will ensure that the models your team builds reach production and contribute to Gen’s cybersecurity mission.