Engineering Manager, Mobile ML

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model, which combines the flexibility of working from home with the benefits of gathering in person. Team members can work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, and Portugal. Conditions permitting, teams will meet in person a few times every quarter at one of Grammarly's hubs, currently in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a shared workspace in Krakow.
Grammarly team members in this role are required to live within a daily commutable distance to San Francisco. Grammarly may provide relocation assistance.
The opportunity
Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, over 30 million people and 50,000 teams around the world rely on our AI-powered communication assistance technology. All of this begins with our team collaborating in a values-driven and learning-oriented environment.
To achieve our ambitious goals, we're looking for an Engineering Manager to join our On-Device Machine Learning team. This role will help build a more private and reliable version of Grammarly that is fully offline and can function exclusively on a user's device-whether it's a phone, tablet, or laptop-or in a browser. It's a great way to explore every part of Grammarly's system and understand all of its components, including the classic NLP pipelines with parsers and text classifiers and the cutting-edge deep learning models that now power the Grammarly system.
Grammarly's engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs-and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog .
Your impact
As the Engineering Manager on the On-Device team, you will help ensure that Grammarly's functionality is available offline and can work without internet connectivity. Our team works with many others to ensure that we can run ML on a user's device and reduce the reliance on an internet connection or a cloud infrastructure. This is part of the company's agenda to improve users' privacy without harming the high level of quality and experience that we provide.
In this role, you will:

• Coach and support team members in close collaboration with engineering leadership to ensure team members' growth.
• Be an effective people manager and a strong advocate for and promoter of the team.
• Support, manage, and grow a team of ML, Front-end, and Back-end Engineers.
• Contribute and influence our product roadmap.
• Provide direction around project investments, prioritization, and engineering resource allocation and coordinate with stakeholders and engineering leadership.

We're looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values-is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 4 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Is a strong coder, with a good understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• Has experience with native development, as most of our code is in C++.
• Has experience developing machine learning models.
• Has-as a plus-experience with natural language processing or model distillation.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth : We hire people we trust and give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team : Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. We have a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values. We also take time to celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific events and programs.
• Comprehensive benefits : Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing superior health care (including mental health benefits). We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, 401(k) matching, and more.

We encourage you to apply
At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all-especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations-to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and participant in the US Federal E-Verify program.
Please note that Grammarly's COVID-19 vaccination policy requires that all team members in North America be vaccinated against COVID-19 to meet in person for Grammarly business or to work from a North America hub location. It is expected that this will be a requirement for this role. Qualified candidates in North America who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or because of a sincerely held religious belief may request a reasonable accommodation to this policy. For Europe, this policy requires team members to be vaccinated or produce a daily negative COVID-19 test administered on-site to work from the hub or attend in-person meetings.
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