AI Engineering Manager (Core AI Platform)

Core Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for Front's AI platform, guiding strategic investments in AI by evaluating emerging techniques, making build-vs-buy decisions, and partnering with product and engineering leadership to prioritize the highest-leverage capabilities.
• Drive architectural decisions on AI infrastructure - LLM orchestration, RAG systems, model evaluation, prompt management - ensuring reliability, scalability, and developer ergonomics.
• Manage and grow a team of senior engineers, providing mentorship and career development while maintaining a high talent bar.
• Define and improve the interfaces between the AI platform and product feature teams, enabling autonomous and efficient execution across the organization.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Front's engineering management team.

Qualifications

• Deep technical fluency in AI/ML systems, particularly LLM-based applications, with the ability to evaluate trade-offs and guide architectural decisions alongside senior engineers.
• Track record of managing and scaling a team of senior/staff engineers through ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces.
• Proven ability to guide strategic AI investments - evaluating emerging techniques, making build-vs-buy decisions, and directing team effort toward the highest-impact bets in a rapidly evolving space.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills to align AI platform capabilities with product needs across multiple teams.
• Ability to attract, develop, and retain top AI engineering talent in a competitive market.
• Experience building and operating AI/ML infrastructure or platform services in production at scale.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Founded or built a new team/function/capability from early stages.
• Experience at a B2B SaaS company applying AI to enterprise workflows.
• Background in developer experience or internal platform work that accelerated other engineering teams.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Equity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)
• Private health insurance, including plan options at no cost to employees
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off policy
• Flexibility to work from home Monday and Friday, unless posted as a fully remote role
• Mental health support with Workplace Options
• Family planning support with Maven
• $100 per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities
• Wellness Days - Fronteers get an additional day off on months with no holidays
• Winter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!
• Front provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.
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