Menlo Park, CA

Salary
$255,000–$300,000
Posted
Jul 14, 2026
Location
Menlo Park, CA
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

An engineering management role focused on building and scaling the AI and ML infrastructure that underpins a consumer finance platform. The manager will oversee teams developing and productionizing machine learning models and LLM-based applications, while partnering with product, design, and infrastructure stakeholders across multiple business lines. Best suited to a leader with hands-on applied ML experience and a background managing managers in a platform or developer-tooling context.

Principal level · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time

Pay in the description: $255,000–$300,000

Must have (3)
Applied Machine LearningLLMsML infrastructure

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 50 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 20–75

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What gives you an edge
ML infrastructure12%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What the occupation pays Median $298,074 (middle half $224,695–$326,567). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (5)

This is a people-management role (Engineering Manager) with explicit responsibility for leading engineers, managers, and applied ML specialists, hiring, and organizational development — mapped to 11-3021 rather than an IC SOC. The alt SOC 15-2051 reflects the deep applied ML/AI domain expertise required.

The title 'Engineering Manager' carries no explicit seniority level word, so the title states no level. However, the scope — managing managers, owning org-wide AI/ML infrastructure across all Robinhood product lines, partnering with executive leaders — supports a Principal-level band.

Compensation shown is for Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA / New York, NY / Bellevue, WA / Washington, DC): $255,000–$300,000/year. Zone 2 figures ($1–$1) appear to be a placeholder/data error in the posting. Zone 3 (FL locations): $199,000–$234,000/year. The Zone 1 range is used as the primary comp figure since the role is based in Menlo Park, CA.

Menlo Park is part of the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA CBSA (41940). The role requires 5 days/week in-person at the Menlo Park office.

The skills listed under 'What You Bring' are framed as leadership/experience requirements rather than named tools or platforms. Only concrete, named technical capabilities (Applied ML, LLMs, ML infrastructure) are extracted as skills; broader leadership competencies and soft skills are omitted per extraction rules.

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