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# Senior Manager, Engineering, Knowledge Graph

- **Company:** The Learning Commons
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $241,000.0 - $331,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, Information Engineering, Graph Database, Knowledge-Based Systems, Software Engineering, Data Ingestion, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** June 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e9e93c638849506a

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Software engineering?, * 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams

 * Deep technical expertise in at least one of: data engineering, knowledge graphs, search and retrieval systems, or AI/ML infrastructure
 * The vision and pragmatism to drive widespread adoption of AI systems within engineering and across Learning Commons
 * Strong technical judgment, communication skills, and ability to balance long-term platform investments with near-term product delivery
 * Passion for education and building mission-driven technology that supports teachers and students through our build partners

## Description

As the Senior Engineering Manager for the Knowledge Graph team, you will lead the strategy, development, and operation of our foundational knowledge platform that is powering AI-enabled educational experiences. You will guide a team of engineers building large-scale graph infrastructure, ingestion pipelines, and developer access tools that connect learning science, curriculum standards, instructional resources, and classroom workflows into a cohesive ecosystem.

You will partner closely with product managers, applied AI researchers, learning scientists and external education experts to develop systems that improve how educational content is organized, discovered and delivered. This role combines technical leadership, people management, organizational influence, and strategic thinking in service of building open infrastructure that advances teaching and learning.

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the team, you will lead a cross-functional team of software engineers, data engineers and AI/ML experts.

What You'll Do

 * Lead and manage the high-performing team responsible for the Knowledge Graph platform, including graph infrastructure, dataset ingestion pipelines, and AI-powered retrieval capabilities.
 * Define and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for integrating educational content, learning science research, curriculum standards into scalable knowledge systems
 * Collaborate with Product, Design, Learning Science and Partnerships teams to drive forward our high-quality data and platform infrastructure
 * Establish strong engineering practices across architecture, reliability, security, and operational excellence while fostering a collaborative and inclusive team culture
 * Support team and organizational growth through hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering leaders and senior technical talent.


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