Technical Lead Manager - Platform EngineeringActive$200K–$300K

The opportunity

LlamaIndex makes enterprise data useful for AI applications.

What you'll do

  • Lead and develop our engineering team, setting clear priorities, ownership, and accountability.

  • Partner with company leadership to translate customer needs into a focused: roadmap and deliver software predictably.

  • Stay directly involved in architecture, code reviews, production debugging,: and implementation of critical changes.

  • Set technical direction across application services, APIs, data pipelines,: and ML infrastructure, balancing immediate customer needs with long-term maintainability.

  • Work with ML engineers and researchers on model training, fine-tuning,: evaluation, and deployment, ensuring model improvements translate into better production outcomes.

  • Guide model serving decisions across latency, throughput, GPU utilization,: capacity, reliability, and inference cost.

What they're looking for

  • Experience scaling engineering at a Series A–C startup.
  • Experience with document processing, OCR, extraction, retrieval, indexing, or: other systems that work with enterprise data.
  • Experience with LLMs or multimodal models, evaluation datasets, and model quality monitoring.
  • Experience with GPU infrastructure, distributed training, inference optimization, or model serving frameworks.
  • Experience building developer tools or API-first products.
  • Experience with enterprise requirements such as multi-tenancy, access: controls, auditability, and security reviews.
  • Experience developing engineering managers while staying closely involved in technical execution.