AI Enablement & Developer Tooling Lead

Rocket Companies; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Individual support

Job summary

Rocket Companies Servicing Technology is seeking a Team Leader, Engineering (AI Enablement and Developer Tooling) to guide a team that builds tooling, accelerators, and shared systems accelerating AI-powered software across the organization.

You will mentor engineers, create self-service tooling, drive AI capabilities adoption, and partner with security, product, and leadership to align on AI strategy and infrastructure investment.

Qualifications

• Led a team whose output was consumed by other engineering teams, i.e. a shared capability, tool, or platform.
• Engineering leadership experience managing technical teams, including hiring, developing engineers, and setting technical direction.
• Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or software delivery to challenge architecture with credibility among senior engineers.
• Credible, practical understanding of modern production AI: LLMs, RAG, agents, model APIs, evaluation, lifecycle management, governance, and cost.
• Proven ability to create clarity in ambiguous spaces—establishing ownership, driving work through completion, and showing measurable outcomes.
• Excellent communication and cross-team influence to explain complex tradeoffs to engineers, security, product, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team that owns AI enablement, developer tooling, and reusable accelerators for Servicing Technology.
• Build internal tools, automation, workflows, and reference implementations to remove friction and measurably improve engineering productivity across Servicing teams.
• Drive real adoption of AI capabilities—shared patterns, evaluation, experimentation support, and production-readiness guidance—so teams ship AI-powered software confidently.
• Raise the bar on observability, resilience, incident learning, automation, and reduction of operational toil across Servicing Technology.
• Turn ambiguous problems into clear ownership, decisions, and measurable outcomes, partnering with engineering, security, product, and senior leadership to align on AI strategy and infrastructure investment.

Skills

Team Leadership

Engineering Leadership

Cross-team Influence

Excellent Communication

Job description

Rocket Companies Servicing Technology is seeking a Team Leader, Engineering (AI Enablement and Developer Tooling) to guide a team that builds tooling, accelerators, and shared systems accelerating AI-powered software across the organization.

You will mentor engineers, create self-service tooling, drive AI capabilities adoption, and partner with security, product, and leadership to align on AI strategy and infrastructure investment.