Job Purpose and Impact
The Manager for AI Platform Engineering leads the team that designs, builds, and operates Cargill's enterprise AI-Ops platform-covering MLOps, LLMOps/GenAIOps, HPC scheduling, and optimisation services (e.g., Gurobi, RStudio Workbench). You will own the platform roadmap, allocate people and budget, drive project delivery, and embed best-in-class reliability, security, and compliance practices. Success is measured by platform uptime, model-to-production velocity, cost-to-serve trends, and team engagement.
Key Accountabilities
Platform Ownership & Road-mapping
- Define and maintain the technical roadmap for MLOps, LLMOps, HPC, and optimization tooling
- Oversee the portfolio of AI-Ops projects; align scope, schedule, and budget to business objectives.
Technical Guidance & Governance
- Champion infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines
Quality, Reliability & Compliance
- Set and monitor SLIs/SLOs for training, inference, and optimization services; lead post-incident reviews.
- Ensure Responsible-AI guardrails, data-privacy, and license-management policies are implemented.
Process Improvement & Automation
- Drive continuous-improvement initiatives (test-driven development, auto-scaling policies, cost dashboards).
Stakeholder & Customer Engagement
- Partner with product managers, data-science leads, and security/compliance teams to capture requirements and set priorities.
Team Management & Talent Development
- Set performance objectives, conduct regular feedback and coaching sessions, and create growth plans.
- Foster an inclusive culture that values experimentation, blameless post-mortems, and knowledge sharing
Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred:
- 3+ years running production MLOps/LLMOps or HPC environments
- 2 + years managing engineers or cross-functional delivery teams
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
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