Senior AI Platform Lead — Production-Ready Gen AI

Deckers Brands; Goleta (CA); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Deckers Brands seeks a Sr. Manager, AI Engineering to lead the enterprise AI platform, ensuring governed access to foundation models and reusable patterns for RAG, agents, and LLM applications.

You will drive production deployment and maintain responsible AI controls across internal and customer-facing AI solutions. The role entails guiding AI engineering teams, partnering with security, privacy, and enterprise architecture, and shaping the roadmap to support Deckers’ digital transformation in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3–5+ years leading engineering teams in cloud-native environments.
• 3+ years delivering production AI or machine learning systems, incl. 2+ years building generative AI/LLM apps.
• Hands‑on experience with retrieval augmented generation, agent frameworks, tool use, and orchestration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the enterprise AI platform with governed access and cost controls.
• Define reusable AI engineering patterns for RAG, agents, orchestration, and LLM apps.
• Lead evaluation frameworks including offline/online quality monitoring and release criteria.
• Deliver AI applications into production across customer-facing and internal use cases.

Skills

AI engineering leadership

Production AI systems

Retrieval augmented generation

Agent frameworks

Foundation models platforms

Cloud-native environments

Team leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Azure OpenAI

LLM tooling/frameworks

Job description

Deckers Brands seeks a Sr. Manager, AI Engineering to lead the enterprise AI platform, ensuring governed access to foundation models and reusable patterns for RAG, agents, and LLM applications.

You will drive production deployment and maintain responsible AI controls across internal and customer-facing AI solutions. The role entails guiding AI engineering teams, partnering with security, privacy, and enterprise architecture, and shaping the roadmap to support Deckers’ digital transformation in a