Senior Manager, AI Engineering

ServiceTitan ServiceTitan · Enterprise · United States · Remote

Senior Manager, AI Engineering to drive AI/ML strategy, manage teams, and ship production-grade AI models and enterprise-grade AI agent systems for automating complex business workflows at scale. Focus on LLMs, RL, fine-tuning, RAG, and evaluation, with an emphasis on reliability, latency, cost optimization, and responsible AI practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive overall model development life-cycle from Ideation to operations, including fine-tuning, evaluation, alignment, and deployment of LLMs and other production-grade AI models
  2. Design and build enterprise-grade AI agent systems and orchestration harnesses that reliably automate complex, multi-step business workflows at scale
  3. Partner with Product organization to help identify the opportunities for AI/ML solutions, including agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and reinforcement learning-based systems
  4. Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to align on Roadmap and deliverables in order to deploy AI/ML models to production, with a focus on reliability, latency, cost optimization, and responsible AI practices
  5. Hire, manage, grow and retain a high performance team that can meet both present and future needs by identifying and leveraging AI/ML opportunities across the suite of the Product.

Skills

Required

  • MS/Ph.D in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or similar quantitative discipline
  • 7+ years of experience in AI/ML leadership roles
  • Hands on knowledge of some of the most advanced methods in machine learning — including large language models, reinforcement learning (RL/RLHF), fine-tuning, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation frameworks
  • Expertise in SQL
  • previous experience with big data systems and modern ML infrastructure (e.g., GPU clusters, model serving platforms, vector databases)
  • Coding experience in Python
  • familiarity in frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, vLLM, or similar
  • Experience building and operating LLM-powered features in production, including guardrails, evaluation pipelines, and cost/latency management
  • Great communication skills including communicating complex concepts to business stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly in a landscape that changes weekly
  • Strong written and presentation communication skills

Nice to have

  • Python (strongly preferred)

What the JD emphasized

  • shipping high impact, customer facing, production-grade AI products
  • building and operating LLM-powered features in production
  • Great communication skills including communicating complex concepts to business stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly in a landscape that changes weekly

Other signals

  • shipping production-grade ML and AI models
  • managing teams
  • enterprise-grade AI agent systems
  • automating complex, multi-step business workflows at scale