Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise
Remote • San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
Posted 2mo ago
Job Location
San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager on our Enterprise team, you will serve as the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You will 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 management role combines deep engineering and AI expertise with leadership and customer-facing problem-solving, integrating AI into critical customer workflows.
Responsibilities
- Partner 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 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.
- 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.
- Create prompt engineering strategies optimized for customer-specific domains and data.
- Build and maintain prompt libraries, templates, and best practices.
- Conduct systematic prompt experimentation and A/B testing to improve model outputs.
- Implement RAG systems and fine-tuning pipelines.
- 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.
- Document technical architectures, integration patterns, and best practices.
- Debug complex technical issues across the entire stack.
- Rapidly prototype solutions to unblock customers and prove out new use cases.
- Stay current on the latest AI/ML research and tools.
- Identify opportunities for productization based on common customer patterns.
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 with modern ML/AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, OpenAI API).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data infrastructure.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and rapidly iterate toward solutions.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Deep understanding of LLMs including 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.
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience using Terraform, Bicep, or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- 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.