Engineering Manager (Product)

🏢 Apollo Research · 📍 London & San Francisco · 💼 onsite · ⏰ Full-time

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are building Watcher, a coding agent security product. Watcher is deployed in production and monitors billions of agent tokens per month across engineering teams at agent-building scale-ups and multinational enterprises. We are now hiring our first dedicated Engineering Manager to lead the product engineering team.

We are looking for a strong hand-on engineer who still ships code, and can own both the people management and the execution of the product engineering team. This is a player-coach role. Today, you will spend most of your time managing and coordinating, but still ship code. As the team grows, you’ll transition towards 100% leadership and management.

The team is small today and is growing fast, so you will have significant say in shaping the team, the process, and the product, and your scope will grow with the team. You will report directly to Marius (CEO), who will own Watcher’s product direction and roadmap.

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Apollo Research Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Rigorous assessment of frontier AI safety mechanisms, mechanistic interpretability of neural networks, and academic research rigor.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Downplaying existential risks or safety concerns associated with advanced AI deployment
2. Lack of deep technical familiarity with neural network internals or transformer architectures
3. Prioritizing speed of deployment over thorough, scientifically sound safety testing

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I advance frontier AI safety by combining rigorous mechanistic interpretability with empirical evaluations of complex neural systems.

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