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Senior Engineering Manager - Machine Learning Data Enablement

$195K–$270K

United States +2 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026

Location
United States
Remote
Remote
Experience
8 years of engineering experience, including at least 3 years of direct people management; preferred: 10+ years in data engineering and ML platform or ML data platform roles, with 5+ years managing engineering teams.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or its equivalent.

About the job

Leads the ML Data Enablement organization and sets its strategy and roadmap to improve data evaluation speed and bring high-value data sources into production for machine learning.

What you'll do

  • Build and lead teams responsible for data integration, data quality, metadata, and ML-critical data infrastructure for training and inference.
  • Set technical strategy and improve data quality, monitoring, ownership, and SLAs across the data lifecycle.
  • Standardize third-party data onboarding and improve discovery and use of internal data.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent) and 8 years of engineering experience, including at least 3 years of direct people management experience.
  • Owned production data pipelines for both offline training and online inference.
  • Experience building and scaling data systems in modern stacks and distributed systems architecture.
  • Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and designing and enforcing production data quality and observability frameworks.

Nice to have

  • 10+ years in data engineering and ML platform or ML data platform roles, with 5+ years managing engineering teams.
  • Experience with feature stores and real-time feature delivery or equivalent feature transformation interfaces used in inference.

Pay

$195,000—$270,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Databricks/Spark, Python, SQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD

AI focus

Leads infrastructure and processes that enable ML teams to discover, evaluate, trust, and productionize data for model training and inference.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)