Robinhood
Engineering Manager, AI Platform & Agentic Apps
Lead and hire an engineering team building the agent platform and customer-facing agentic apps for a regulated brokerage, with onsite work in Menlo Park.
Captured October 2026Still open as of Oct 11, 2026 ↗
The role
This manager role leads the team that builds Robinhood's shared agent platform, which currently gives internal engineers and staff an AI assistant for code, data, and operations work. The team is working toward the same foundation powering customer-facing agents that take real actions in real time. The position sits at the intersection of platform engineering and applied LLM work, with close ties to Legal, Compliance, and Security.
What you would do
- Recruit, develop, and grow a team of engineers building agentic applications
- Own the roadmap and delivery standards for agents acting on behalf of customers and staff
- Guide technical design of agent orchestration, tool integration, evaluation, and permissions for high-stakes actions
- Put guardrails, approval steps, and audit logging in place for actions that move money
- Establish eval-gated release processes for agent changes
- Keep nondeterministic production systems on third-party model providers reliable, including SLOs, fallbacks, and root-cause follow-through on incidents
- Track and report measurable outcomes such as task success, quality, latency, and cost per task to leadership
What they asked for
- 10+ years of experience managing software engineers
- Track record of hiring strong people and shipping widely used products
- Hands-on experience building and shipping tool-calling LLM agents to production
- Experience operating consumer-scale services with on-call and SLO ownership
- Ability to set a focused, measurable roadmap in ambiguous, fast-changing settings
- Clear written and verbal communication across engineering, product, and executive audiences
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