AI Engineering Manager

Job Overview

Chamberlain Group is a global leader in intelligent access. This role is within our Engineering Function and leads engineering teams focused on building and delivering AI capabilities that power intelligent, connected home experiences for our customers. The position is US-based and manages a distributed engineering team.

• Own end-to‑to‑end engineering delivery of the real‑time data serving infrastructure, including data serving layers, search indexes, and online feature delivery.
• Drive engineering reliability and scalability of the real‑time model serving infrastructure.
• Lead engineering delivery of the agentic interface end‑to‑end.
• Own LLM orchestration architecture for dialogue management, context handling, and session continuity.
• Own customer insight modeling pipeline and ensure high accuracy.
• Lead machine learning pipeline engineering that surfaces insights about connected home usage patterns.
• Manage sprint‑cadence delivery across engineering teams with clear ownership, unblocking, and accountability.
• Work closely with cross‑functional teams across architecture, product, AI/ML ops, and the Video Intelligence team to manage feature and data dependencies.
• Drive observability standards: APM span hierarchy, cost monitoring, escalation rate tracking, and alert thresholds.
• Lead drift detection, confidence scoring pipeline monitoring, and production rollback readiness.
• Prepare and deliver team health updates and milestone reviews to leadership.
• Operate fluidly as a first‑line or second‑line manager depending on project needs—directly managing engineers when hands‑on delivery leadership is required, and leading through senior engineers who manage their own teams in steadier execution phases.
• Develop and grow Senior Engineers into technical leads who can carry day‑to‑day team ownership, while maintaining direct coaching relationships across the full team.
• Lead hiring and onboarding of engineers.
• Build a high‑trust, high‑velocity team culture.
• Comply with health and safety guidelines and rules; managers should also ensure compliance across their teams.
• Protect Chamberlain Group’s reputation by keeping information confidential.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reading professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing related results and participating on projects as needed.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an engineering leadership or management role.
• Demonstrated ownership of real‑time serving infrastructure and machine learning pipelines at production scale: low‑latency APIs, feature stores, embedding indexes, model serving, or online scoring layers.
• Experience building or leading LLM‑powered or agentic systems: conversational AI, LLM orchestration, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), or dialogue management.
• Experience with ML behavioral modeling, anomaly detection, or time‑series analysis.
• Experience managing distributed engineering teams spanning geographies and employment models.
• Proven track record delivering production APIs with strict SLA requirements (uptime and observability standards).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: production‑quality Python, system design, code review practices, and automated testing.
• Deep understanding of real‑time serving architecture: API gateway patterns, vector search, and feature store read paths.
• Working knowledge of LLM orchestration frameworks (Lang Chain or equivalent), retrieval‑augmented generation pipelines, prompt engineering, and AI agent workflow design.
• Familiarity with ML anomaly detection techniques: behavioral baselines, scoring pipelines, false‑positive management.
• Experience with production observability tooling (Datadog APM or equivalent): span tracing, cost monitoring, alert threshold management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills—comfortable bridging distributed engineering execution with product and AI…