Overview
As Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager, you bridge Scale AI’s capabilities with strategic enterprise customers. You lead a team to architect and deploy AI solutions that integrate with customers’ systems, ensuring production-ready performance and adoption. You’ll work hands-on with customer teams to tailor integrations, build robust data pipelines, and advance multi-agent AI solutions in mission-critical environments. This role blends management with deep AI engineering to drive impactful, scalable outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Partner with enterprise customers to understand their infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements
- Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI platform and customer environments (cloud, data warehouses, internal APIs)
- Build data connectors and ETL pipelines to prepare data for AI workflows
- Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries
- Develop production-grade AI agents across domains (customer support, data analysis, content generation, workflow automation)
- Architect multi-agent systems coordinating models, tools, and data sources
- Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate on business objectives
- Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement
- Create prompt engineering strategies for customer domains; maintain prompt libraries and templates
- Conduct prompt experimentation and A/B testing; implement RAG systems and fine-tuning pipelines
- Lead as Engineering Manager and technical point of contact for strategic enterprise accounts
- Collaborate with customer data scientists, ML engineers, and software developers to ensure smooth integration
- Document architectures, integration patterns, and best practices
- Debug complex issues across data pipelines to model outputs; rapidly prototype solutions when needed
- Stay current on AI/ML research and tools; identify opportunities for productization
Key requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years of management experience
- Production Python expertise with modern ML/AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, OpenAI API)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data infrastructure
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to handle ambiguous requirements
- Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- strong communication and collaboration
- leadership and people management
- customer-centric mindset
- Python production expertise
- LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, OpenAI API
- Cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
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