Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Technical Lead Senior Manager, Enterprise AI
$265K–$364K
Palo Alto, California · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in software engineering; 2+ years leading engineers as a tech lead or engineering manager.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads a small engineering team to build and scale production-grade AI tools and workflows across the software development lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Set the roadmap and architecture for reusable, model-portable AI tooling, and build prioritized services and developer tools hands-on.
- Establish evaluation, safety, security, monitoring, reliability, and cost standards for AI tools across engineering teams.
- Lead and develop a small team, collaborating with engineering leaders and partner groups to embed AI into development workflows.
What they ask for
- 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 production experience with language models and agents, including tool use, context management, and evaluation across open-source and proprietary models.
Pay
$265,000 – $364,450 (base salary)
Tools
language models, agents, open-source models, proprietary models, CI/CD systems
AI focus
Productionize and scale AI-native developer tools and workflows, including agent runtimes, evaluation, code review, testing, and triage; ensure model portability, safety, security, and measurable developer impact.
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