Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager, Enterprise
San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
Full Time
2 hours ago
Senior LevelEngineering
Over $120K

USD per year

Job Description

Role Overview

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager on our Enterprise team, you'll be the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You'll work with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges, lead a team that architects specific AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments. This is a Management role that combines deep engineering and AI expertise, leading a team, and working on customer-facing problems. You'll work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate AI into their critical workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Integration & Deployment

  • 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 (cloud platforms, data warehouses, internal APIs)
  • 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

AI Agent Development

  • Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across domains like customer support, data analysis, content generation, and workflow automation
  • Architect multi-agent systems that orchestrate between different models, tools, and data sources
  • Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate toward business objectives
  • Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement

Prompt Engineering & Optimization

  • Create sophisticated prompt engineering strategies optimized for customer-specific domains and data
  • Build and maintain prompt libraries, templates, and best practices for customer use cases
  • Conduct systematic prompt experimentation and A/B testing to improve model outputs
  • Implement RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems and fine-tuning pipelines where appropriate

Leadership & Collaboration

  • Serve as the Engineering Manager and technical point of contact for strategic enterprise accounts
  • Lead a team that is collaborating with customer data scientists, ML engineers, and software developers to ensure smooth integration
  • Work closely with Scale's product and engineering teams to translate customer needs into product improvements
  • Document technical architectures, integration patterns, and best practices

Problem Solving & Innovation

  • 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
  • Stay current on the latest AI/ML research and tools, bringing innovative approaches to customer problems
  • Identify opportunities for productization based on common customer patterns
How to Apply
About Scale AI

Scale AI provides high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models and enable enterprises and governments to build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. They offer a data-centric, end-to-end solution to manage the entire machine learning lifecycle, combining cutting edge technology with operational excellence to help teams develop the highest-quality datasets.

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