Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, GenAI Applications

At Scale AI, we are not just building AI tools. As businesses rush to harness the potential of Generative AI, Scale is leading the way, transforming workflows, automating complex processes, and driving real-world impact for the world’s largest enterprises and government organizations.
Our Scale Generative AI Platform (SGP) powers production-grade GenAI applications with foundational services, APIs, and infrastructure that accelerate adoption across industries. As more of these applications go into production, we are expanding our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team to drive hands-on innovation where it matters most: in our customers' environments.
We are looking for a technical and strategic Engineering Manager to lead our European FDE team. Our FDE team is on the front lines of this transition, helping customers adopt AI faster and with more confidence.
From scoping use cases to shipping solutions, your team will be responsible for every step of the delivery lifecycle.
You will bring structure to delivery, improve execution, and scale our engineering operations in a fast-moving environment.
This is a rare opportunity to help define how the next generation of AI applications is built and deployed. If you are excited by the pace of innovation in GenAI, passionate about solving real-world problems, and ready to lead a team that is redefining enterprise AI delivery, we want to hear from you.
Drive technical decisions and help the team navigate system integrations and architecture choices
Build internal tooling and shared capabilities to accelerate delivery across diverse use cases
Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer teams to streamline execution and reduce friction
Ensure fast, high-quality delivery of features, experiments, and customer launches
Provide strategic clarity to your team and attract, hire, and retain world-class engineering talent
3–5+ years of engineering management experience, ideally in high-growth tech environments with direct customer engagement
~ A strong engineering background and a track record of leading technical teams to deliver impactful products
~ Hands-on experience building or deploying AI-powered systems, with an understanding of how model behavior shapes user experience
~ Strategic thinking with a clear ability to turn business goals into actionable engineering plans
~ Operational rigor in planning, prioritizing, and delivering complex software systems at scale
~ Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), DevOps, and scalable platform architecture
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