GenAI Engineering Leader — Enterprise AI Strategy

Kraft Heinz; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 121,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

7% 401(k) matching

BRGs for diversity and inclusion

Total rewards package with performance

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Kraft Heinz is seeking a Senior Manager of AI Engineering to lead a team delivering GenAI solutions from strategy to deployment in enterprise environments. You will drive architecture, model selection, and governance while partnering with business and technology leaders to maximize value across the organization.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, scalable patterns, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Data, and Architecture teams in a Chicago-based setting.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, IT or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading AI/ML, software architecture, or technical teams.
• Hands-on with GenAI solutions (chatbots/agents) on major cloud platforms like Azure.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical designs and configurations.
• Strong knowledge of LLMs, RAG, prompt/context engineering, and agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of AI engineers delivering GenAI solutions and set standards.
• Own AI engineering strategy and roadmap across multiple business units.
• Partner with Business, Product, AI Architects, Data Architects, Data Engineers and Enterprise Architecture for end-to-end alignment.
• Translate business requirements into system architecture and configuration specs.
• Evaluate architecture patterns and model-selection strategies across GenAI; balance cost, latency, accuracy, security and privacy.
• Drive responsible AI practices to keep non-deterministic systems reliable and trustworthy.
• Identify architecture gaps, risks and dependencies early and mitigate them.
• Represent AI engineering to senior leaders and own critical decisions on architecture and delivery.

Skills

GenAI

LLMs

RAG

Prompt engineering

Agentic workflows

Stakeholder mgmt

Azure

Education

Master’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Kraft Heinz is seeking a Senior Manager of AI Engineering to lead a team delivering GenAI solutions from strategy to deployment in enterprise environments. You will drive architecture, model selection, and governance while partnering with business and technology leaders to maximize value across the organization.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, scalable patterns, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Data, and Architecture teams in a Chicago-based setting.