Technical Lead Senior Manager, Enterprise AI

The role

You will lead a small team of engineers to productionize AI tools across the company. You will spend about half your time on architecture, design reviews, and hands-on building.

What you will do

• Set the direction for reusable AI tooling and own the roadmap
• Build AI tooling that works with any model
• Put AI to work across the development lifecycle
• Lead design reviews and build prioritized AI services and developer tools
• Connect engineering groups to spot shared patterns and reuse components
• Set the bar for evaluation, guardrails, and monitoring
• Show impact in terms of cycle time, quality, and hours returned
• Make AI workloads fast and affordable and make build-versus-buy calls
• Build security, privacy, and auditability into every tool
• Work with DevEx, IT, and domain teams to shape AI-native workflows

Required qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years in software engineering, including production systems in enterprise environments
• 2+ years leading engineers as a tech lead or engineering manager
• Hands-on experience building and operating AI-native developer tools, internal platforms, or CI/CD systems in production
• Hands-on experience with language models and agents, including tool use, context management, and evaluation in production, across both open-source and proprietary models
• Deep familiarity with the latest developments in AI
• Experience designing abstractions that keep tooling portable across model providers and frameworks
• Experience defining architectures and standards that create leverage across multiple teams
• Working knowledge of security, privacy, and auditability for AI-enabled developer tooling
• Strong communication skills

Benefits

• competitive base salary
• annual company performance bonus program
• equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• health coverage
• retirement savings
• time off
• family planning programs

About the company

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology.