Hiring: Manager, Applied AI Engineering Company: McGraw Hill Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:24:26 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Angular, Azure, CI/CD, CircleCI, Confluence, Datadog, Docker, DynamoDB, ECS, GCP, GitHub, Jira, LLM, Lambda, LangChain, MySQL, Node.js, Pinecone, Playwright, PostgreSQL, Python, RAG, RDS, React, Slack, SonarQube, Terraform, TypeScript, Zoom, pgvector About the job Experience: •10+ years of experience in Software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role. •At least 2 years in a leadership or management role. Required Skills: •Operate as both a people manager and an individual technical contributor/tech lead, shifting between the two as project needs demand. •Act as hands-on tech lead on the organization's most strategic enterprise AI initiatives, designing agentic and LLM-based systems firsthand and stepping in directly to resolve the team's hardest technical problems. •Manage AI-native engineers and teams that move quickly and operate with high autonomy using modern AI tooling. •Own the team's AI token and compute budget, driving cost efficiency and responsible usage across AI tooling and infrastructure. •Set technical standards for prompt engineering, RAG, agent orchestration, and evaluation of AI systems across the team. •Drive software engineering excellence through coding, pair programming, code/architecture reviews, and comprehensive solution design. •Manage stakeholder relationships and ensure the team's work meets compliance, application security, and data privacy standards alongside business requirements. •Facilitate career development for your team through mentorship, identifying training opportunities, and skill-building. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in computer science engineering, or a related field. •You have led teams of individual contributor engineers, coming from an engineering background yourself - with strong empathy, communication, and interpersonal skills, balancing the realities of the business with the needs of your team. •You interface well with other business units and leadership, being able to describe situations and technical approaches to foster an environment of trust and confidence. •You have practical, hands-on experience building and shipping production-grade LLM or agentic applications at enterprise scale, with a deep understanding of generative AI principles and the latest advancements. •You have proven experience in designing, developing, and implementing complex software applications, with deep expertise across front-end and back-end development and the full software development life cycle - including application code, testing, documentation, and performance/security engineering. •You have an ability to seamlessly shift focus between diverse projects and priorities in a dynamic work environment, managing multiple initiatives concurrently without compromising quality or focus. •You have experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and modern development tools and methodologies. •You can work in a fast-paced software release environment, where you continuously deliver production-grade software daily for a system with millions of users around the world. •Front-end: TypeScript, Angular, React and Playwright •AI services such as Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI service, Amazon Bedrock or similar technologies. Compensation: •$140,000 - $190,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!