Senior AI Platform & MLOps Engineering Lead

Sierra Nevada Corporation; Lone Tree (CO); Hybrid; USD 199,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Sierra Nevada Corporation seeks a seasoned AI/ML Engineering Manager II to lead multiple AI/ML teams and guide a large engineering organization. The role provides strategic technical oversight to ensure scalable development of complex ML systems aligned with mission-critical programs.

As SNC's corporate team, you will shape the enterprise AI platform, drive architecture for LLM/gateway, model routing, and agent orchestration while mentoring senior engineers and managing budgets, schedules, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or related STEM field.
• 6-8+ years in AI/ML or software engineering, with 2+ years in a management role.
• Higher level degree may substitute for experience.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams and delivering complex programs.
• Expertise in generative AI/LLM techniques; familiarity with supervised and unsupervised ML for data platform use cases.
• Experience architecting and optimizing ML pipelines and high-performance systems.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and data governance requirements (CMMC, data classification).

Responsibilities

• Lead the AI/LLM Platform and MLOps engineering team delivering the enterprise AI platform.
• Provide deep technical guidance on LLM and generative AI architectures, including the LLM gateway, model routing, and agent/workflow orchestration.
• Oversee integration of ML models and AI capability into enterprise systems and business platforms.
• Establish strong validation, verification, and compliance processes.
• Manage resourcing, budgeting, schedules, and risk mitigation.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads.
• Drive AI/LLM platform capability development and own the long-term technical roadmap for the platform.

Skills

Leadership

AI/ML expertise

Security/compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud ML platforms

Model pipelines

Education

BS in CS/Math/Engineering

Tools

AWS ML Specialty

Azure AI Engineer

LLM gateway

Job description

Sierra Nevada Corporation seeks a seasoned AI/ML Engineering Manager II to lead multiple AI/ML teams and guide a large engineering organization. The role provides strategic technical oversight to ensure scalable development of complex ML systems aligned with mission-critical programs.

As SNC's corporate team, you will shape the enterprise AI platform, drive architecture for LLM/gateway, model routing, and agent orchestration while mentoring senior engineers and managing budgets, schedules, and