AI Engineering Manager

Blend360


Job Location:

Guadalajara - Mexico

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 14 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Leadership and Delivery

  • Lead project delivery end to end with clear governance stakeholder communication and accountability for outcomes
  • Build and mentor a high-performing AI engineering team establishing technical standards and fostering a culture of quality and pragmatism
  • Own proposals and new business initiatives defining technical feasibility and communicating risks and tradeoffs clearly to clients
  • Define what AI systems should and should not attempt setting realistic expectations and being upfront about limitations
  • Conduct technical reviews and architectural assessments to maintain high standards across projects and team

AI Development

  • Guide the design and delivery of RAG systems agentic frameworks and LLM-powered solutions that are robust enough for production
  • Lead the application of advanced prompt engineering techniques including instruction design few-shot sets structured outputs and tool/agent prompts
  • Run feasibility assessments to choose the right approach for each problem: prompting RAG fine-tuning or classical ML
  • Mentor engineers on end-to-end AI system design and production deployment practices

Evaluation and Quality

  • Design evaluation frameworks including LLM-as-a-judge approaches metric creation ( ) and go/no-go gates
  • Lead structured experiments across prompts retrievers chunking strategies and models grounded in evidence not intuition
  • Establish team practices for identifying and categorising model failures including hallucinations retrieval misses and instruction-following errors
  • Set quality standards that ensure AI systems meet production reliability requirements

MLOps and Infrastructure

  • Build scalable inference infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML models that support rapid iteration and reliable deployment
  • Automate the full MLOps/LLMOps lifecycle: tracking versioning deployment monitoring and retraining across the team
  • Design APIs microservices and orchestration layers optimised for latency cost and reliability
  • Lead infrastructure decisions that balance technical excellence with business efficiency

Qualifications :

What We Are Looking For

  • 7 years building and deploying AI solutions in production environments
  • 2 years of direct team leadership or technical management experience
  • Expert Python proficiency strong Git practices and experience with ML/LLM versioning and deployment
  • Solid cloud experience across AWS Azure or GCPpreference for Azureplus containerisation and orchestration knowledge
  • Hands-on RAG experience covering chunking embeddings retrieval reranking and evaluation
  • Proven MLOps/LLMOps track record using tools like MLflow Weights and Biases or similar
  • Practical evaluation design skills: metrics dataset curation and structured experimentation
  • Experience with event-driven architectures APIs and microservices
  • A clear communicator equally comfortable with engineering teams and senior stakeholders
  • Strong hiring and team-building instincts with proven mentoring experience

What about languages

  • English: Advanced (required for effective communication with global teams and client leadership).

How much experience must I have

7 years of hands-on AI/ML engineering experience in production environments with 2 years of direct team leadership or technical management responsibility.

Nice to Have

  • Databricks MLOps platform
  • LLM fine-tuning experience
  • Building agentic GenAI systems
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Security and observability for AI services
  • Classical ML background
  • Open-source contributions

Additional Information :

Our Perks and Benefits:

Learning Opportunities:

  • Certifications in AWS (we are AWS Partners) Databricks and Snowflake.
  • Access to AI learning paths to stay up to date with the latest technologies.
  • Study plans courses and additional certifications tailored to your role.
  • Access to Udemy Business offering thousands of courses to boost your technical and soft skills.
  • English lessons to support your professional communication.

Travel opportunities to attend industry conferences and meet clients.

Mentoring and Development:

  • Career development plans and mentorship programs to help shape your path.

Celebrations & Support:

  • Special day rewards to celebrate birthdays work anniversaries and other personal milestones.
  • Company-provided equipment.

Flexible working options to help you strike the right balance.

Statutory Benefits:

  • Social security coverage (IMSS).
  • Christmas bonus (Aguinaldo) as per Mexican law.
  • Vacation premium (Prima Vacacional).
  • Remote work bonus.
  • Paid leaves as per Federal Labor Law (LFT).
  • Additional benefits as required by Mexican labor regulations.

Other benefits may vary. For detailed information please consult with one of our recruiters.


Remote Work :

Yes


Employment Type :

Full-time

Leadership and DeliveryLead project delivery end to end with clear governance stakeholder communication and accountability for outcomesBuild and mentor a high-performing AI engineering team establishing technical standards and fostering a culture of quality and pragmatismOwn proposals and new busine...

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Blend360 is an award-winning provider of data, analytics, and talent solutions for Fortune 500 companies. The company has made the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies every year they have been in business and has been awarded a world-class ranking in client satisfaction for th ... View more

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