Engineering Manager, AI Group

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team based primarily in Berlin, with members across our European offices.
• 2
  Incubate and deliver AI products from ideation through to success, leveraging backtests, evals and A/B tests to inform what ships.
• 3
  Contribute directly to our production systems so you keep first-hand context.
• 4
  Own operational health for your workstreams: SLOs, alarms, and proactive management of our most critical systems.
• 5
  Plan, prioritise and deliver best-in-class AI products with your most senior engineers, ML Scientists, PMs and AI Designers.
• 6
  Make AI-first the team default. Build shared skills, agents, and automations that raise the bar for the team’s output and ambition.
• 7
  Hire and onboard great engineers, and help them build the Berlin office.

Requirements

• Strong prior experience as an engineer, with recent hands-on technical contributions.
• Strong technical judgement, and the ability to coach senior engineers through complex architecture and product trade-offs.
• Strong product sense: you can weigh AI product opportunities and decide what matters most.
• A data-driven approach: you use experiments and metrics to make decisions.
• Strong ownership of production quality and reliability.
• An adaptable leadership style for a group and environment that will grow fast and change shape.
• Experience leading engineering teams that build and operate generative AI systems in production.
• Experience with AI evaluation, backtesting or experiment design at scale.
• Experience managing AI costs and how product choices affect it.
• Experience in a hands-on EM role, or alternating between EM and IC roles.
• Experience helping build or grow a new engineering site.

Perks & Benefits