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Manager, AI Engineering

DigitalOceanManager, AI Engineering

Perks & benefits

Relocation Allowance

Requirements

Software engineering management experience, AI/ML systems expertise, Agentic orchestration frameworks, Python, Go, TypeScript, or Java, Cloud-native infrastructure

Skills

PythonLLMKubernetes

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of AI engineers building copilots, agents, and internal AI platforms
  • Act as a player-coach by reviewing architecture, contributing to design, and writing code
  • Shape and execute the technical roadmap for AI Engineering in partnership with senior leadership
  • Design and deliver end-to-end agentic systems including orchestration, tool use, and evaluation
  • Build and evolve the internal AI platform, including MCP gateway, agent runtimes, and model access
  • Partner with business leaders in Finance, People, Sales, and Marketing to identify and ship high-leverage AI opportunities
  • Champion modern AI engineering practices such as evaluation-first development and runtime guardrails
  • Recruit and develop world-class AI engineering talent

Requirements

  • Significant experience as a software engineering manager leading production-grade teams
  • Hands-on depth in modern AI/ML systems, LLMs, RAG, and LLMOps
  • Practical experience with agentic orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI)
  • Experience designing internal developer platforms or productivity tooling
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, Go, TypeScript, or Java
  • Proficiency with modern cloud-native infrastructure like Kubernetes and serverless
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence non-engineering stakeholders
  • Ability to work in a hybrid environment while leading distributed teammates

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience re-engineering business processes in enterprise systems like Workday, Salesforce, or NetSuite
  • Experience deploying AI tooling at scale to internal users (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot)
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Manager, AI Engineering

DigitalOcean · Boston

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