Manager, AI Engineering

About the role

Rockwell Automation is seeking a Manager, AI Engineering within the Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) AI Center of Excellence. This role will lead a team of AI Engineers responsible for architecting, building, deploying, and sustaining production-grade AI solutions across global supply chain operations. The Manager, AI Engineering will own the technical engineering capability for ISC AI. This includes solution architecture, engineering standards, GenAI application development, reusable technical patterns, integration design, production reliability, and sustainment. This leader will work closely with AI Delivery, IT, Analytics, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, and business stakeholders to convert prioritized use cases into secure, scalable, maintainable AI solutions. This position reports to the Senior Director, Digital Transformation and will work a hybrid schedule at our office in Milwaukee, WI.

Responsibilities

• AI Engineering Strategy & Architecture: Lead the ISC AI engineering function, including technical architecture, engineering standards, development practices, reusable patterns, and production support expectations.
• Define solution approaches for GenAI applications, LLMs, RAG pipelines, prompt orchestration, agent-based workflows, document intelligence, knowledge assistants, and process automation.
• Ensure AI solutions align with enterprise architecture, Azure AI platform standards, cybersecurity requirements, responsible AI expectations, and ISC data governance requirements.
• Team Leadership & Engineering Capability: Lead, coach, and develop a team of AI Engineers responsible for building and supporting production-grade AI solutions across global supply chain use cases.
• Establish engineering practices for code quality, documentation, version control, testing, prompt management, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and support.
• Build team capability in Python, APIs, Azure AI, LLM application development, RAG, vector databases, data integration, workflow automation, and enterprise software delivery.
• Solution Development & Integration: Oversee the design and development of