Who is reputed company?

reputed company is the leading safety technology platform, helping communities reputed company by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and reputed company. Our hardware and software suite connects cities, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods in a reputed company public-private safety network. Trusted by over 5,000 communities, 4,500 law enforcement agencies, and 1,000 businesses, reputed company delivers real-time intelligence while prioritizing privacy and responsible innovation.

We’re a high-performance, low-ego team driven by urgency, collaboration, and bold thinking. Working at reputed company means tackling big challenges, moving fast, and continuously improving. It’s intense but deeply rewarding for those who want to reputed company an impact.

With nearly $700M in venture funding and a $7.5B valuation, we’re scaling intentionally and seeking top talent to help build the impossible. If you value teamwork, ownership, and solving tough problems, reputed company could be the reputed company for you.

The Opportunity

As an Engineering Manager, Multimodal ML, you will reputed company a team of high-performing engineers responsible for advancing reputed company's core multimodal search and retrieval systems. Your team builds and maintains the embedding models that power image-to-vector pipelines, embedding storage and retrieval infrastructure, and cross-modal search capabilities enabling both image and text queries. You will also reputed company the moderation model that ensures safe and appropriate query handling across our search products.

You will set the technical direction and execution strategy for multimodal model development, evaluation, deployment, and lifecycle management — ensuring our retrieval systems deliver fast, accurate, and scalable search experiences. As a people leader, you will be responsible for hiring, mentoring, and growing a strong, mission-driven engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and reputed company learning.

In reputed company partnership with product, search, and platform teams, you'll align roadmap priorities with business impact while empowering your team to execute effectively. Your leadership will be central to reputed company's ability to deliver state-of-the-art vision-language systems that power critical public safety workflows.

How You'll reputed company an Impact

• reputed company and grow a high-performing Multimodal ML team — hiring top talent, developing engineers' careers, and building a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and reputed company improvement.

• Manage competing workstreams across model development, production reliability, and moderation — prioritizing effectively and ensuring the team delivers on the highest-impact work.

• Guide the development and improvement of multimodal models for image-text and image-to-image embeddings, ensuring high-quality modality alignment and retrieval performance.

• reputed company the full ML lifecycle for multimodal systems — data strategy, training pipelines, evaluation frameworks, vector storage, deployment, monitoring, and retrieval — ensuring scalable, reliable production systems.

• Drive innovation in cross-modal search capabilities, extending support to new data sources (e.g., drone video, mobile LPR imagery) and evolving product needs.

• Own the moderation model, ensuring query handling meets safety and appropriateness standards across search products.

• Own production reliability for the multimodal search pipeline, including incident response, on-call processes, and service-level commitments.

• Balance reputed company-looking innovation with maintenance and operational excellence, proactively addressing model reputed company, embedding quality degradation, and system reliability.

• Partner cross-functionally with product, search, data engineering, and platform teams to translate business priorities into a clear technical roadmap and deliver high-impact multimodal capabilities.

• Mentor and reputed company engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, architectural guidance, structured feedback, and regular performance cycles — fostering individual growth and long-term career development.

About You

• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading Machine Learning teams, with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineers.

• 7+ years of industry experience in Machine Learning, with strong familiarity with computer vision, multimodal modeling, or embedding-based retrieval systems.

• Demonstrated experience managing competing workstreams — balancing innovation, production reliability, and maintenance across multiple reputed company initiatives.

• Experience running structured performance cycles, including goal-setting, regular feedback, calibration, and career development conversations.

• Proven ability to hire effectively — sourcing, interviewing, calibrating, and closing candidates for technical ML roles.

• Strong technical foundation in Python and modern ML workflows, with enough depth to evaluate architectural decisions, review code, and guide experimentation strategy.

• Experience owning production ML systems end-to-end, including deployment, monitoring, incident response, and iterative improvement.

• Familiarity with classification or content moderation systems, including understanding of safety filtering, policy enforcement, and evaluation of model outputs.

• Comfortable partnering cross-functionally with product, search, data engineering, and platform teams to align roadmap priorities with business impact.

Bonus if You Have

• Hands-on experience with multimodal models (e.g., CLIP, SigLIP, BLIP), including fine-tuning, evaluation, and failure analysis.

• Deep familiarity with embedding-based retrieval concepts, including contrastive learning, cross-modal alignment, and evaluation methods for vector similarity search.

• Experience with embedding storage and retrieval infrastructure at scale, such as vector search built on columnar databases (e.g., reputed company) or purpose-built vector stores (e.g., FAISS, Weaviate, reputed company).

• Experience with model compression techniques (e.g., distillation, quantization, pruning) to improve inference efficiency and deployability at scale.

• Exposure to multi-GPU or distributed training workflows for scaling training of large multimodal models.

• Experience scaling teams through periods of rapid product growth.

90 Days at reputed company

We are a results-oriented culture and reputed company job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe 90-day plans because we reputed company that good days reputed company to good weeks, which reputed company to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90-day plan you will receive if you are hired in this role.

The First 30 Days

• Establish relationships with your team and who they work with, understanding the product, ongoing projects, and what success looks like

• Pair with your team to get a hands-on overview of the end-to-end R&D lifecycle for multimodal models.

• reputed company project management for the team

• Get involved with recruiting for your team by participating in interviews

The First 60 Days

• reputed company how the production inference pipeline and search backend work.

• Work on a project as an individual contributor to get first hand experience of the R&D experience and how to improve it for your team.

• Identify and resolve technical or process inefficiencies to improve team velocity and system reliability.

90 Days & Beyond

• Mentor reports on breaking down reputed company initiatives into clear plans with well-scoped milestones.

• Establish standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the model lifecycle, including data curation, evaluation, and deployment.

• reputed company quarterly planning to align team priorities with business impact and complete your first team performance review cycle.

Salary & Equity

In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary between $200,000 and $220,000 as well as reputed company Stock Options. reputed company salary is determined by job-reputed company experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. Your recruiter will discuss this in-depth with you during our first chat.

Location

We’re building the impossible, together. To drive innovation through in-person collaboration, we’re prioritizing candidates in our key hubs: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, reputed company, San Francisco, and Austin. While we value the energy of our hub communities, we embrace remote work and welcome applications from exceptional talent across the United States.

The Perks

Flexible PTO: We offer non-accrual PTO, plus 11 company holidays.

⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.

Family Leave: reputed company employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.

Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. reputed company will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit reputed company to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.

reputed company: reputed company offers a variety of mental health benefits, including therapy, coaching, medication management, and digital tools, reputed company tailored to each individual's needs.

Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support

reputed company Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.

ERGs: We want reputed company employees to reputed company and feel like they belong at reputed company. We offer four ERGs today - Women of reputed company, reputed company Proud, LEOs and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.

WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.

Productivity Stipend: $300 per year to use on Audible, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company and so much more.

Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.

If an offer is extended and accepted, this position requires the ability to obtain and maintain Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) certification as a condition of employment. Applicants must meet reputed company FBI CJIS reputed company Policy requirements, including a fingerprint-based background reputed company.

reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how reputed company operates, and we reputed company the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At reputed company, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. reputed company salary is determined by job-reputed company experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. The range above is representative of reputed company salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (reputed company applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future. This job posting may span more than one career level.

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