Engineering Product Manager (Ray Core)

About Anyscale:

At Anyscale, we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray, a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI, Uber, Spotify, Instacart, Cruise, and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world.

With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert.

Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date.

About the role:

Anyscale is looking for a strong Engineering Leader to manage the Ray Core (Core Runtime) team, which includes both the open source Ray distributed computing framework, and proprietary features. We are looking for candidates with experience to manage through managers or tech leads. 

As an open source project, Ray is about making general purpose distributed computing easy, and Ray Core is the fundamental architecture behind this “infinite laptop” mission. The Ray Core team is responsible for developing this core distributed computing framework (with basic abstractions of Tasks, Actors, Objects) to support Ray developers, and other Ray libraries (e.g. Datasets, ML libraries). The work also includes adding proprietary features to make the Anyscale SaaS offering more competitive. The work will be essential in our path towards Ray 2.0, and also in the next phase of the Anyscale product. 

You can learn more about Ray Core with these materials:

- Our research papers on NSDI ‘21 and HotOS ‘21 describing the architectural vision of a Distributed Futures system

- How Ray Core’s flexible scheduling and shared data plane enable high performance in third generation ML platforms

In this position, you will guide the vision, recruit, and enable a high-performing team. This team is critical to everything that Anyscale and Ray achieve and will play a pivotal role in the success of the company.

• Drive the strategy of the Anyscale Ray Core (or Core Runtime) group
• Drive the execution of Ray Core team’s key projects towards Ray 2.0 and beyond
• Hiring, team Building: Build a world-class team of distributed systems engineers
• Focus on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team
• Communicate your work to a broader audience through talks, tutorials, and blog posts
• Work closely with our product team to enhance our distributed computing framework
• Leading the charge in the OSS community to optimize our footprint and user experience
• Help us to build and shape a world-class company

• Experience building core distributed systems
• Experience leading an open-ended project (Computer Science Systems research background is a plus)
• Experience with operating data / ML infra in production is a plus
• Solid engineering management experience leading productive, high-performing teams
• Managing through other managers is a requirement
• Record of helping teams scale quickly while maintaining a good culture
• Experience going from 0-1 as a founder and a great track record of execution
• Mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills
• Effective communication

• At Anyscale, we take a market-based approach to compensation. We are data-driven, transparent, and consistent. The target salary for this role is $237,000 ~ $284,614. As the market data changes over time, the target salary for this role may be adjusted.

• Stock Options
• Healthcare plans, with premiums covered by Anyscale at 99%
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Wellness stipend
• Education stipend
• Paid Parental Leave
• Fertility Benefits
• Paid Time Off
• Commute reimbursement
• 100% of in office meals covered

Anyscale Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates are evaluated without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law. 

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