--- title: 'Engineering Manager, API at Runway' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-api-runway-remote-dbmj18naffxt' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-13' --- # Engineering Manager, API at Runway - **Company:** Runway - **Location:** Remote - **Compensation:** $280k–$340k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2025-10-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runway-ml/b5d136bb-4143-400b-914a-0ae7377ad8ed/application **Skills:** TypeScript, AWS, GCP, Azure, Python, PyTorch, TorchScript, Kubernetes, Flyte, Kueue, Kyverno, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, Data Modeling > Lead a team of 4-6 platform engineers responsible for Runway's product platform and API infrastructure. Drive strategy, architecture, and scalability for TypeScript-based services running on AWS, while partnering with product and finance teams to ensure high-quality, revenue-generating APIs. ## Job description We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world. World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached. Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you. ## About the role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for Runway's product platform and API. You should have experience growing high-performing engineering teams and be deeply interested in the intersection of product development, APIs, and distributed systems. You will will manage our current and growing team of 5. You’ll have a chance to work closely with our product engineering, product management, and finance teams to build low-latency, high-reliability APIs for our AI-powered creation tools as well as the infrastructure to support them. A peek at our technical stack Our API endpoints for real-time collaboration and media asset management is written in TypeScript, and runs in ECS containers on AWS Fargate. We leverage multiple AWS-native components, such as S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Kinesis, and SQS, as building blocks of our infrastructure. Our inference backend is written in Python (PyTorch, TorchScript), and is deployed across multiple clusters / cloud providers. We use Kubernetes for container orchestration, and k8s-native components such as Flyte, Kueue, and Kyverno efficient job orchestration. We invest in prometheus and grafana for monitoring, and Terraform to manage our infrastructure. ## What you’ll do - Drive platform strategy and architecture for our TypeScript-based API infrastructure, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and scalability as we grow - Own the public API domain end-to-end, from technical architecture to revenue growth, ensuring it's a high-quality, revenue-generating platform that developers love - Manage our data and analytics infrastructure, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility for teams across the company - Lead and grow a team of 4-6 platform engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement - Partner with Product Engineering teams to unblock new feature launches, providing platform support and ensuring smooth integration between frontend experiences and backend capabilities - Own critical data pipelines and metrics that power business decisions across Finance (cost-of-sales, revenue attribution), Support (usage analytics, error tracking), and Product (feature adoption, performance metrics) - Work cross-functionally with leadership to set priorities, communicate progress, and align platform investments with business goals ## What you’ll need - 2+ years of experience in an engineering manager or team lead role, with a track record of building and scaling high-performing teams - 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with specific expertise operating TypeScript services in the cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) - Strong product sensibility and business acumen – you understand how technical decisions impact revenue, customer satisfaction, and company metrics - Experience owning revenue-generating platforms or products, with an understanding of API economics, usage-based pricing, and developer experience - Solid foundation in data engineering and analytics, including experience with metrics pipelines, data modeling, and business intelligence tooling - Database expertise, particularly in managing production databases at scale, data migrations, and ensuring data integrity - Excellent cross-functional communication skills – you can translate technical concepts for business teams, explain business constraints to engineers, and build consensus across diverse stakeholders - Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration – you can make smart trade-offs between perfect and good-enough in a fast-moving startup environment - Empathetic and inclusive leadership style that empowers engineers to do their best work Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide. There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range. Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates. Working at Runway [Great things come from great teams.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmj4ato2kw&ab_channel=Runway) We’d love to hear from you. We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply. More about Runway - [Universal World Simulator](https://runwayml.com/world-simulator.html) - [GWM-1](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1) - [Gen-4.5](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5) - [General World Models](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models) - [Robotics SDK](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#robotics-section) - [Conversational Real-time Agents](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#avatars-section) - [Runway Studios](https://runwayml.com/studios) We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work: [Crain's](https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/best-places-work-2023) | [InHerSight](https://www.inhersight.com/companies/best/city/new-york-city-ny) | [BuiltIn NYC](https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-places-to-work) | [INC](https://www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2024) ## About Runway ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Runway builds artificial intelligence to simulate the world, focusing on general world models for video generation, robotics, and interactive experiences. - **Entity Type**: Private (Corporate Minority funding stage; total raised $859.5M) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (79 Walker Street, Floor 5) - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Not publicly listed on provided sources (widely reported as Cristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis Germanidis, and Alejandro Matamala) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Video Generation, World Simulation, Robotics - **Target customers**: B2B – media & entertainment, film production, architecture, robotics research; also creative professionals and enterprises - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science." – Runway believes world models are the path to general-purpose simulation, enabling progress in robotics, disease research, and scientific discovery. ## Products & Services - **[Gen-4.5](https://runwayml.com/)**: World's top-rated video generation model – cinematic, highly realistic outputs with precise creative control (SaaS / API). - **[GWM-1](https://runwayml.com/)**: State-of-the-art General World Model for real-time simulation. Three variants: - **GWM Worlds**: Interactive, explorable environments. - **GWM Avatars**: Real-time conversational video agents (API) – customizable appearance, voice, personality, knowledge, and actions. - **GWM Robotics**: Learned world models for robotic manipulation and physical interaction simulation. - **Runway Studios**: Production arm exploring AI integration in film (announced partnership with Lionsgate). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $859.5M (as of latest Corporate Minority round) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: NVIDIA (strategic partnership on Vera Rubin architecture), Lionsgate (film production partnership), General Atlantic, Felicis, Fidelity Investments, and 36+ others. - **Growth Signals**: - Partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate video and world models. - Partnership with Lionsgate to explore AI in film production. - Gen-4.5 recognized as top-rated video model. - Launch of GWM-1 (three variants) expanding into robotics and conversational AI. - Used by leading organizations across industries (e.g., architecture firm KPF). ## Competitive Advantages - **General World Models (GWM-1)**: Unlike pure language models, Runway builds models that understand, perceive, generate, and act in the world – a clear moat for simulation and robotics. - **Real-time interactivity**: GWM Worlds and Avatars enable real-time, controllable simulation and conversation, differentiating from static video generation. - **Full-stack AI platform**: From video generation (Gen-4.5) to world simulation (GWM-1) to production studios, Runway covers the entire creative-to-simulation pipeline. - **Strong research culture**: Long-term research effort to build AI systems that understand visual world dynamics. ## Strategic Focus - Continue advancing General World Models for universal simulation. - Expand partnerships in entertainment (Lionsgate), robotics (NVIDIA), and architecture (KPF). - Grow the platform’s adoption across industries requiring simulation, creative content, and autonomous agents. - Scale the team globally (offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo) with remote flexibility. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: "Creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people determined to change the world." Merges art and science – ideal for researchers, engineers, artists, and designers. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Global remote team; offices in 6 cities. Employees outside 10-mile commuting distance can expense co-working, internet, phone, and lunches (up to $250/month); within commuting distance get $50/month phone reimbursement. - **Benefits**: - 100% medical, dental, vision coverage for US employees and dependents (plus mental health and One Medical membership). - Unlimited PTO (recommended min 15 days) + paid sabbatical at 3, 5, and 7 years. - 16 weeks fully paid parental leave (all parents) with gradual return-to-work plan. - 3% 401k match (US employees). - $600 annual wellness stipend; $600 annual learning stipend; $500 tech setup stipend. - Annual travel budget for in-person collaboration, conferences, and company events. - Quarterly community donation program. - **Recognition**: Best Places to Work NYC (2022–2024), Inc. Best Workplaces (2023), Built In Inclusive Workplace (2022, 2023), Crain’s Best Companies Group. ## Sources 1. [runwayml.com](https://runwayml.com/) 2. [Runway Careers](https://runwayml.com/careers) 3. [Runway About](https://runwayml.com/about) 4. [CB Insights – Runway Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/runwayml) 5. 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