Munich, Bayern
AI Engineering Manager
AI Engineering Manager
Job description
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team delivering AI services (e.g., AI Assistant backend), including hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
Own the end-to-end, full stack technical architecture and platform governance for shared components across brands, ensuring scalability, reliability, and interoperability.
Partner with product and engineering leaders to help prioritize cross-brand AI use cases, maintain a shared backlog, and align delivery timelines and dependencies.
Deliver platform capabilities such as agent runtime and store, fine-tuning and evaluation pipelines, SDKs/APIs, and semantic translation adapters for cross-brand workflows.
Establish and enforce engineering best practices for AI services, including code quality, documentation, automated testing, observability, CI/CD, versioning, and release management.
Ensure security, privacy, and compliance across services, including model transparency and monitoring, data protection, and incident response processes.
Define and track platform KPIs (availability, latency, cost, quality metrics), implement performance and quality evaluation, and ensure continuous platform upkeep.
Operate a cross-brand contribution model: review, generalize, and merge brand contributions into the common core through rigorous technical reviews and quality gates.
Align technical decisions with business outcomes; communicate impact, capacity needs, and investment trade-offs; support budgeting and resource allocation for shared services.
Key accountabilities
Impact on Business: Predominantly works tactically – executes strategic initiatives
Innovation and Change: Predominantly develops new processes or solutions
Accountabilities include: create new shared AI services and reference patterns; introduce automated evaluation and safety practices; standardize a cross-brand contribution model
Communication scope: Predominantly communicates with others within the organization (option a); main communication partners: brand product leaders (planning/roadmaps), brand engineering managers (architecture/integration), executive leadership (status/KPI/investments)
Decision-making power: Predominantly makes decisions; decisions include: approve platform architectures/standards, gate deployment readiness, accept/reject brand contributions based on quality gates.
Qualifications
Educational Background: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related; equivalent practical experience in large-scale platform engineering; relevant certifications (cloud architect, security, MLOps) are a plus
Professional Knowledge and Experiences: 8+ years engineering with 3+ years leading platform/shared services; proven delivery of AI/ML platforms in production; cloud/Kubernetes/service mesh/observability; AI platform components (orchestration, vector stores, RAG, fine-tuning, eval harnesses); strong architecture across backend/data/APIs; security/privacy/incident response; SLO-driven operations/on-call/postmortems; cross-brand platform and contribution model management
Other Skills and Competencies: Leadership and coaching; systems architecture and governance; product-minded delivery; SRE, observability with SLOs/SLIs, and cost/performance stewardship; security/privacy and model governance; stakeholder communication and clear documentation; cross-brand collaboration; languages: fluent English, German is a plus
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