REMOTE - AI Engineering Manager (Databricks)

Responsibilities

Lead a team of 3-5 embedded agentic engineers who work inside Product Oriented Delivery pods, helping engineers, analysts, and product owners ship twice as fast with twice the quality through agentic workflows.

You'll build the agentic harness tuned to our existing infrastructure, write code alongside your team, run the developer community, and ensure a steady stream of innovation projects make it to production on Databricks.

Qualifications

• Leadership: 2+ years managing engineering teams. Experience with embedded/distributed teams. Coaching mindset. Production (Non-Negotiable): Shipped end-to-end systems to production with real users, SLAs, and on-call. Not PoCs. 1+ year operating production ML/AI systems. Databricks: 2+ years production Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, PySpark). Medallion architecture. Cost optimization. Agentic/LLMs: Anthropic Claude production experience (structured outputs, tool use, multi-turn). Built developer tools with LLMs. Evaluation frameworks. Prompt engineering at scale. Engineering: Production-grade Python. SQL expertise. CI/CD. API design. Code quality obsession. Threat modeling. Chaos engineering. Communication: Technical teaching. Influence without authority. Clear written communication. Stakeholder management.

Benefits

• Potential starting salary range: $151,000 - $247,000. Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience.
• Potential yearly incentive pay up to 18% of base salary
• Healthcare: State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
• Tuition Assistance: Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
• Financial Planning: Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more.
• Time Off: You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days, there will be plenty of time for you!
• Community Engagement: Give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
• Retirement: Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.