AI Engineering Lead - Build & Scale Production Solutions

CornerStone Technology Talent Services; Denton (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CornerStone Technology Talent Services seeks an AI Development Manager to build and lead the software development and AI engineering function for a fast-growing manufacturing organization. This hands-on leader will create a development capability, establish processes, and deliver production-ready AI solutions.

The role requires building teams, setting standards, and driving adoption across operations, engineering, procurement, and IT.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of software development experience.
• At least two years in software team leadership or management.
• Experience building a software/AI capability from the ground up.
• Experience defining team structure and engineering processes.
• Proven experience managing developers, not only individual contributors.
• Experience owning team delivery incl. prioritization, sprint planning, release management, deployment, and quality.
• Track record taking internal apps/AI/automation from concept to production.
• Proven success driving user adoption with measurable business outcomes.
• Experience delivering internal tools, web apps, or ERP/integrations.
• Strong experience with databases, SQL, REST APIs, system integrations, and architecture.
• Hands-on experience building and integrating AI agents/automation using LLM APIs and retrieval.
• Experience introducing AI-assisted development into engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the software development and AI engineering function, including team structure and standards.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop software engineers and leaders.
• Establish delivery models: sprint cadence, source control, code reviews, testing, releases.
• Translate business priorities into a sequenced AI and development roadmap.
• Prioritize requests and maintain focus on high-impact initiatives.
• Partner with Ops, Engineering, Finance, IT to deliver practical solutions.
• Evaluate emerging AI models, frameworks, and tools for business value and security.
• Establish AI-assisted development as standard practice.
• Lead AI agents, automation, and production deployments.
• Own solutions from concept to production launch and continuous improvement.
• Set architectural standards and technology selection guidelines.
• Coordinate rollouts, gather feedback, measure productivity and impact.

Skills

Software development

Team leadership

AI development

Hiring / recruiting

Sprint planning

Delivery management

Architecture & design

Relational databases

SQL

System integrations

Communication

Fast-moving environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Tool calling

Retrieval techniques

Job description

CornerStone Technology Talent Services seeks an AI Development Manager to build and lead the software development and AI engineering function for a fast-growing manufacturing organization. This hands-on leader will create a development capability, establish processes, and deliver production-ready AI solutions.

The role requires building teams, setting standards, and driving adoption across operations, engineering, procurement, and IT.