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We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science.
We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.
World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.
Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for Runway's product platform and API. You should have experience growing high-performing engineering teams and be deeply interested in the intersection of product development, APIs, and distributed systems. You will will manage our current and growing team of 5.
You’ll have a chance to work closely with our product engineering, product management, and finance teams to build low-latency, high-reliability APIs for our AI-powered creation tools as well as the infrastructure to support them.
Our API endpoints for real-time collaboration and media asset management is written in
, and runs in ECS containers on AWS Fargate. We leverage multiple AWS-native components, such as S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Kinesis, and SQS, as building blocks of our infrastructure.
Our inference backend is written in
and is deployed across multiple clusters / cloud providers. We use
for container orchestration, and k8s-native components such as Flyte, Kueue, and Kyverno efficient job orchestration. We invest in prometheus and grafana for monitoring, and
to manage our infrastructure.
for our TypeScript-based API infrastructure, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and scalability as we grow
, from technical architecture to revenue growth, ensuring it's a high-quality, revenue-generating platform that developers love
, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility for teams across the company
, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
to unblock new feature launches, providing platform support and ensuring smooth integration between frontend experiences and backend capabilities
that power business decisions across Finance (cost-of-sales, revenue attribution), Support (usage analytics, error tracking), and Product (feature adoption, performance metrics)
to set priorities, communicate progress, and align platform investments with business goals
, with a track record of building and scaling high-performing teams
, with specific expertise operating TypeScript services in the cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
– you understand how technical decisions impact revenue, customer satisfaction, and company metrics
, with an understanding of API economics, usage-based pricing, and developer experience
, including experience with metrics pipelines, data modeling, and business intelligence tooling
, particularly in managing production databases at scale, data migrations, and ensuring data integrity
– you can translate technical concepts for business teams, explain business constraints to engineers, and build consensus across diverse stakeholders
– you can make smart trade-offs between perfect and good-enough in a fast-moving startup environment
that empowers engineers to do their best work
Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just part of the overall compensation package we provide.
There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.
Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.
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We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.
More about Runway
https://runwayml.com/world-simulator.html Universal World Simulator
https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1 GWM-1
https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5 Gen-4.5
https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models General World Models
https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#robotics-section Robotics SDK
https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#avatars-section Conversational Real-time Agents
https://runwayml.com/studios Runway Studios
We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work:
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/best-places-work-2023 Crain's | https://www.inhersight.com/companies/best/city/new-york-city-ny InHerSight | https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-places-to-work BuiltIn NYC | https://www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2024 INC
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What is the salary for this role?
The salary for this role is USD 280,000 - 340,000/yr per annum.
What experience is required?
2+ years of experience is required.
Is this position still open?
Yes, currently active and accepting applications.
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