Senior Manager, AI Engineering (AI Enablement Platform)

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Abcfinancial · Poland

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ABC Fitness is building a shared AI Enablement Platform designed to empower every product team to ship AI-powered features-quickly, safely, and at scale. The goal of this platform is simple: remove the plumbing. We want our product engineers focused on AI innovation, not on reinventing the underlying infrastructure. This platform provides the "paved path" for AI, including: Reusable APIs: Chat, RAG, and classification. Agent Orchestration Patterns: Standardized ways to handle multi-step reasoning. Evaluation & Validation Systems: Tools to measure model performance and quality. Production Guardrails: Built-in observability, policy enforcement, and cost controls. As the Engineering Manager , you will lead the core team (including our Principal AI Engineers) responsible for building and scaling this platform. You will treat the platform as a product, ensuring it is not only powerful but also intuitive and widely adopted by the broader engineering organization.

Responsibilities

Lead the AI Enablement Team: Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers working on cutting-edge AI capabilities.

Platform-as-a-Product: Own the roadmap for our shared AI services. Ensure the platform is well-documented, easy to integrate, and solves the actual friction points our product teams face.

Deliver Reusable Capabilities: Oversee the development of core APIs, SDKs, and evaluation systems that provide a consistent "AI Way" of building at ABC.

Drive Organizational Adoption: You are the chief advocate for the platform. You'll identify friction in the developer experience and ensure that the platform becomes the default, non-negotiable path for all AI development.

Guide technical decision-making: Partner with Principal AI Engineers and senior ICs to shape architecture, review trade-offs , and ensure the team makes strong decisions around evaluation, observability, reliability, security, scalability, and cost.

Establish Standards: Define the "ABC Best Practices" for how AI systems are built, tested, and monitored in production.

Focus on DevEx (Developer Experience): Minimize the "time to first token" for new teams starting their AI journey.

Build and grow the team: Create a motivated, high-performing AI engineering team by understanding each engineer's strengths, aspirations, and growth areas; running effective 1:1s; giving timely feedback; and creating development plans that help engineers grow in scope, judgment, and ownership.

Create the team operating system: Establish planning, prioritization, retrospectives, delivery metrics, decision logs, communication rhythms, and lightweight processes that help the team deliver predictably and sustainably.

Develop leaders within the team: Delegate meaningful ownership, create stretch opportunities, and help engineers lead technical discovery, design reviews, rollouts, retrospectives, and cross-team initiatives.

Drive cross-team alignment: Build strong relationships with Product, Data, SRE, Security, and engineering teams consuming the platform; use feedback loops to ensure the platform solves real developer friction and becomes the trusted path for AI development at ABC.

What This Is Not

Not a shared services "ticket queue" taking requests for one-off features.

Not an isolated research or experimentation lab-we build for production.

Not building siloed solutions; we build tools that scale for the entire company.

What You Bring

Engineering Leadership: You've successfully led platform or backend teams delivering complex, internal systems at scale.

Technical judgment: You can guide architecture and engineering trade-offs without needing to be the deepest expert in every detail. You know when to challenge, when to delegate, when to escalate, and when to let the team own the decision.

Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of scalable APIs, microservices, and how to maintain high availability for shared services.

Execution & Delivery Focus: You know how to balance long-term architectural

Senior Manager, AI Engineering (AI Enablement Platform)

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