Applied AI Engineering Manager, Enterprise
Content + Source + Freshness • 17 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Exceptional value due to the leadership role in a crucial AI sector, competitive compensation, and a direct impact on enterprise AI applications.
- Lead AI engineering initiatives with direct impact
- Attractive salary range of $212,000—$254,400
- Work with top ML organizations
- Responsibilities may require adaptability and longer hours
Pros
- Leadership role within a pioneering AI firm
- High compensation with equity potential
- Opportunity to work with prominent ML organizations
Cons
- Expectations for significant contributions and leadership
- Need for adaptability in a rapidly changing field
- Management responsibilities may require longer hours
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Flexible / In-office and remote
Good fit
- AI leaders and engineers with management experience
- Candidates keen to drive enterprise-level AI solutions
- Professionals with advanced education and strong skills
Not recommended for
- Junior professionals seeking learning roles
- Candidates uninterested in leadership
- Those wanting less responsibility in their positions
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
AI is becoming vitally important in every function of our society. At Scale, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we’re accelerating the usage of frontier data and models by building complex agents for enterprises around the world through our Scale Generative AI Platform (SGP).
The SGP ML team works on the front lines of this AI revolution. We interface directly with clients to build cutting edge products using the arsenal of proprietary research and resources developed at Scale. As an AAI Engineering Manager, you’ll manage a team of high-calibre Applied AI Engineers + MLEs who work with clients to train ML models to satisfy their business needs. Your team’s work will range from training next-generation AI cybersecurity firewall LLMs to training foundation agentic action models making predictions about business-saving outcomes. You will guide your team towards using data-driven experiments to provide key insights around model strengths and inefficiencies in an effort to improve products. If you are excited about shaping the future of the modern AI movement, we would love to hear from you!
You will:
- Train state of the art models, developed both internally and from the community, in production to solve problems for our enterprise customers.
- Manage a team of 5+ Applied AI Engineers / ML Engineers
- Work with product and research teams to identify opportunities for ongoing and upcoming services.
- Explore approaches that integrate human feedback and assisted evaluation into existing product lines.
- Create state of the art techniques to integrate tool-calling into production-serving LLMs.
- Work closely with customers - some of the most sophisticated ML organizations in the world - to quickly prototype and build new deep learning models targeted at multi-modal content understanding problems.
Ideally you’d have:
- At least 3 years of model training, deployment and maintenance experience in a production environment
- At least 1-2 years of management or tech leadership experience
- Strong skills in NLP, LLMs and deep learning
- Solid background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
- Experience working with a cloud technology stack (eg. AWS or GCP) and developing machine learning models in a cloud environment
- Experience building products with LLMs including knowing the ins and outs of evaluation, experimentation, and designing solutions to get the most of the models
- PhD or Masters in Computer Science or a related field
Nice to haves:
- Experience in dealing with large scale AI problems, ideally in the generative-AI field
- Demonstrated expertise in large vision-language models for diverse real-world applications, e.g. classification, detection, question-answering, etc.
- Published research in areas of machine learning at major conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, CVPR, etc.) and/or journals
- Strong high-level programming skills (e.g., Python), frameworks and tools such as DeepSpeed, Pytorch lightning, kubeflow, TensorFlow, etc.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to operate in a cross functional team environment
Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.
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About Us:
At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI. Our products power the world's most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.
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