Manifest (California)
AI/ML Engineering Manager
Manifest (California), San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
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Manifests mission is to quantify change. We give enterprises a clear, trustworthy record of whats happening in their environments so they can reduce risk, speed up investigations, and resolve issues before they grow. Our team is a small but fast-growing group of engineers, product thinkers, and operators building a solution that makes complex environments more understandable and actionable.
Role Overview
Manifest IT is building a Change Observability Platform that unifies time-series data, graph intelligence, and GenAI copilots to help organizations trace, analyze, and remediate changes.
We are looking for an AI/ML Lead (Applied AI Engineering Manager) to manage and mentor a team of ML Engineers and GenAI Programmers, driving the design and deployment of applied AI/ML features at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership: Lead, mentor, and expand a team of ML Engineers and GenAI Programmers.
Roadmap Execution: Define and deliver the AI/ML strategy aligned with platform milestones.
Technical Guidance:
Direct ML Engineers in building scalable pipelines for anomaly detection, correlation, and attribution.
Guide GenAI Programmers in creating copilots, agentic workflows, and NL-to-Graph query translation.
MLOps Ownership: Oversee the end-to-end ML lifecycle model development, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
Quality & Compliance: Ensure ML/AI solutions meet standards for latency, scalability, accuracy, and governance.
Collaboration: Work closely with product and engineering leadership to prioritize features and align execution with platform goals.
Required Skills & Qualifications
812 years in ML/AI engineering, with 3+ years in leadership or management roles.
Strong track record in production ML systems (time-series anomaly detection, causal inference, graph ML).
Hands-on programming in Python, Go, or Java.
Expertise in LLM/GenAI integration (RAG, embeddings, LangChain/LangGraph, MCP workflows).
Experience with graph databases (Neo4j) and time-series platforms.
Proficiency in MLOps tools (MLflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker).
Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines.
Strong communication, architecture design, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred
Prior experience building AI/ML features for large-scale SaaS or observability platforms.
Knowledge of security and compliance-driven AI development.
Startup or early-stage product-building experience.
Logistics
Location: San Francisco, Hybrid we expect team members to be in-office ~50% of the time (some roles may require more).
Manifest does not currently sponsor H1B visas and therefore candidates must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States on a full-time basis and not require current or future visa sponsorship for employment.
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