Senior AI Platform Engineering Manager

Johnson Controls; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid vacation/holidays/sick time

Comprehensive benefits (401K, medical,

On-the-job training

Collaborative environment

Zero Harm safety policy

Job summary

Johnson Controls is seeking a Manager of AI & ML Platform Engineering to lead our enterprise AI platform team. You will define the roadmap, set standards, and drive adoption of scalable AI capabilities across business units and data science teams.

You will mentor ML Platform Engineers, oversee training pipelines, governance, and security, and partner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure governance and Responsible AI practices. This role reports to the AI Platform Engineering leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years in software/cloud/platform/AI/ML technologies.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience delivering Azure-based cloud and AI platform solutions.
• Experience operating large-scale platforms supporting AI, ML, or data products.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise AI Platform roadmap aligned to business and technology objectives.
• Establish standards, reference architectures, engineering patterns, and operating procedures for AI and ML workloads.
• Drive adoption of AI platform capabilities across product teams, business units, and data science organizations.
• Own platform KPIs including reliability, security, adoption, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of ML Platform Engineers, MLOps Engineers, and cloud specialists.
• Collaborate with Data Science, Product Engineering, Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture leadership, and executives.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Platform engineering

MLOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related discipline

Tools

Azure

Azure ML

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Kubernetes

AKS

Job description

Johnson Controls is seeking a Manager of AI & ML Platform Engineering to lead our enterprise AI platform team. You will define the roadmap, set standards, and drive adoption of scalable AI capabilities across business units and data science teams.

You will mentor ML Platform Engineers, oversee training pipelines, governance, and security, and partner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure governance and Responsible AI practices. This role reports to the AI Platform Engineering leadership.