D. E. Shaw’s current hiring separates purchased AI products from agents built in-house. An AI Vendor Tools product manager owns a portfolio that explicitly includes Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini, with responsibility for integrations, evaluation tooling and a small support team. A separate applied-AI engineer is asked to build internal agents, coding agents, reusable skills, large-scale retrieval and shared infrastructure, including orchestration, tool use, memory and multi-step reasoning.
The senior product manager for Generative AI Tech Services owns firmwide agent and chat experiences, adoption and cost-benefit prioritization. The technical program manager owns sprint planning, dependencies, resource allocation and cross-site coordination—down to vendor support tickets. Together, the postings make build-versus-buy less a binary choice than a portfolio with product ownership on both sides.
Posted New York base salaries are $200,000–$275,000 for the vendor-tools product manager, $225,000–$275,000 for the applied-AI engineer and $230,000–$300,000 for the senior product manager.