ML Engineering Manager / Head of Engineering AI

Job Description Responsibilities Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team of AI engineers, platform engineers, and product managers.Set clear goals, mentor team members, and foster a culture focused on impact, collaboration, and rapid learning.Implement agile processes prioritizing speed without compromising quality or security.Collaborate closely with customers to understand AI safety challenges, innovation objectives, and safety requirements.Translate customer needs into actionable roadmaps aligned with their innovation cycles.Oversee the development of tools and platforms for alignment assessments, adversarial testing, drift detection, and interpretability analysis.Make informed build vs. buy decisions to optimize speed and integration with customers.Champion engineering excellence by enforcing secure coding practices, automation, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code.Ensure system reliability with SLAs, SLOs, rigorous testing, and operational dashboards.Continuously innovate AI safety methodologies by staying current with research and piloting emerging techniques. .