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About the Role

We are hiring our first dedicated Engineering Manager to lead the product engineering team for Watcher, a coding agent security product. This is a player-coach role where you will manage and coordinate, while also shipping code. As the team grows, you will transition to a full leadership role. You will have significant influence in shaping the team, processes, and product, reporting directly to the CEO.

Responsibilities

• Own the team's planning and tracking, turning goals into well-scoped tickets with clear owners.
• Run the operating rhythm, including planning, standups, and retrospectives.
• Track dependencies between product engineering, monitoring research, and infrastructure/security work, proactively resolving conflicts.
• Translate research outputs into scoped, prioritized engineering work.
• Track customer commitments and coordinate releases, testing, documentation, and customer communication.
• Surface risks and slippage early, providing accurate status updates to the CEO.
• Directly manage product engineers, including running 1on1s, providing feedback, and owning their growth and performance.
• Own performance management end-to-end, setting expectations and addressing underperformance.
• Drive hiring for the team, including pipeline management, interviews, and onboarding.
• Protect the team's focus by shielding engineers from thrash and ensuring stable priorities.
• Ship code yourself, including features, bug fixes, internal tooling, and prototypes, primarily in Python and TypeScript.
• Set the technical bar, make architecture decisions, review code, and establish processes for releases and incidents.
• Build tooling to increase team speed, including AI-assisted tools for management and engineering tasks.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of software engineering experience before managing, with continued production code shipping.
• Direct people management experience (hiring, onboarding, managing small teams, 1on1s, feedback, performance) or equivalent tech lead experience for at least 2 years.
• Experience running delivery for multi-person engineering efforts, accountable for outcomes.
• High agency, proactively identifying and addressing team needs.
• Direct communication style, comfortable giving and receiving blunt feedback.
• Excited about a fast-moving startup environment with comfort in ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Comfortable leveraging AI heavily for management, coordination, and coding work, with experience using tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
• Experience coordinating between research and engineering, or shipping products with an ML/research component.
• Customer-facing delivery experience, such as enterprise integrations or deployment projects.

Skills

• Python
• TypeScript
• AI-assisted tooling
• AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)

Location

• London
• San Francisco

Work Type

• In-person
• Flexible working hours
• Some work from home arrangements

Experience Level

• Engineering Manager
• Player-coach

Salary/Compensations

• San Francisco: $283,000 - $396,000
• London: £190,000 - £266,000

Benefits

• Market competitive salary
• Equity
• Competitive benefits
• Unlimited token budget for compute
• Flexible work hours and schedule
• Unlimited vacation
• Unlimited sick leave
• Up to 6 months of paid parental leave
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
• Retirement savings with competitive employer matching (e.g. 401(k) for US employees)
• Provided lunch, dinner, and snacks on workdays
• Paid work trips (staff retreats, business trips, conferences)
• Yearly $1,000 professional development budget
• Relocation support and visa fees

About the Company

• Apollo Research is concerned with risks from Loss of Control in AI, particularly deceptive alignment/scheming.
• We work on the science of scheming, its detection, and mitigations.
• We collaborate with frontier AI companies to test models and advance the science of scheming.
• Our culture emphasizes truth-seeking, goal-orientation, constructive feedback, and friendliness.
• We build Watcher, a coding agent security product, to reduce catastrophic incidents by securing coding agents and understanding real-world risks.
• We aim to publish research on effective control systems.

Equal Opportunity

• Apollo Research is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• We value diversity and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.