Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager, Enterprise

Scale AI New York, NY $216,000 - $270,000
Full Time Manager Level 5+ years

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About This Role

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager on our Enterprise team, you will be the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You will lead a team to understand client challenges, architect specific AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments.

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand their technical infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements
  • Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI's platform and customer data environments
  • Build robust data connectors and ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare customer data for AI workflows
  • Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries
  • Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across domains
  • Serve as the Engineering Manager and technical point of contact for strategic enterprise accounts
  • Lead a team collaborating with customer data scientists, ML engineers, and software developers
  • Work closely with Scale's product and engineering teams to translate customer needs into product improvements
  • Debug complex technical issues across the entire stack, from data pipelines to model outputs
  • Rapidly prototype solutions to unblock customers and prove out new use cases

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • 2+ years of Management experience
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design
  • Production Python expertise
  • Experience in modern ML/AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, OpenAI API)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Experience with modern data infrastructure
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication skills

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with 2+ years of Management experience

Nice to Have

  • Deep understanding of LLMs, prompting techniques, embeddings, and RAG architectures
  • Experience building and deploying AI agents or autonomous systems in production
  • Knowledge of vector databases and semantic search systems
  • Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects
  • Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience using Terraform, Bicep, or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
  • Previous work in a devops, platform, or infra role
  • Familiarity with enterprise security, compliance, and governance requirements (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA)
  • Proven ability to work with customers in a technical consulting, solutions engineering, or product engineering role
  • Domain expertise in verticals like finance, healthcare, government, or manufacturing
  • Experience with technical enablement or teaching programs

Skills

Python * AWS * Azure * Kubernetes * Docker * CI/CD * Terraform * LLMs * LangChain * GCP * LlamaIndex * Vector Databases * Bicep * RAG architectures * HuggingFace * OpenAI API * Semantic search systems *

* Required skills

Benefits

Dental coverage
Retirement benefits
Equity-based compensation
Vision coverage
Learning and Development stipend
Generous PTO
Health coverage
Commuter stipend

About Scale AI

Scale AI accelerates AI development by providing high-quality training data and infrastructure, enabling organizations to build transformative AI models. They develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.

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