Senior AI Platform Lead - Governance & Production (Remote)

Deckers Brands; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 138,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Bonuses

Financial planning

Time off

Perks & discounts

Growth opportunities

Health & wellness

Job summary

Deckers Brands seeks a Sr. Manager, AI Engineering to lead its enterprise AI platform, govern foundation model access, and drive production AI initiatives. You will mentor engineers, partner with cross-functional teams, and steer the roadmap for AI capabilities.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, cost controls, and scalability in a fast-paced, global environment. Remote-friendly with strong collaboration across functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field; Master’s preferred.
• 8–12 years building production software/data/ML systems.
• 3–5+ years leading cloud-native engineering teams.
• 3+ years delivering production AI/ML systems with generative AI.
• Experience taking GenAI from PoC to governed production.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise AI platform and governance for foundation models.
• Define reusable AI engineering patterns for retrieval augmentation and orchestration.
• Lead evaluation framework with offline/online monitoring and release criteria.
• Deliver AI apps from concept to governed production.
• Ensure production readiness with guardrails, safety controls, and incident response.

Skills

Enterprise AI

Leadership

Cloud-native

LLM applications

RAG patterns

Agent frameworks

Context management

Cost awareness

Model platforms

OpenAI/AWS Bedrock

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Azure OpenAI

OpenAI API

Job description

Deckers Brands seeks a Sr. Manager, AI Engineering to lead its enterprise AI platform, govern foundation model access, and drive production AI initiatives. You will mentor engineers, partner with cross-functional teams, and steer the roadmap for AI capabilities.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, cost controls, and scalability in a fast-paced, global environment. Remote-friendly with strong collaboration across functions.