[Remote] REMOTE - AI Engineering Manager (Databricks)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. State Farm is a leading insurance company committed to helping people and investing in communities. They are seeking an AI Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers in developing agentic workflows and solutions on the Databricks platform, ensuring quality and innovation in production systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 3-5 embedded agentic engineers who work inside Product Oriented Delivery pods, helping engineers, analysts, and product owners ship twice as fast with twice the quality through agentic workflows
• You'll build the agentic harness tuned to our existing infrastructure, write code alongside your team, run the developer community, and ensure a steady stream of innovation projects make it to production on Databricks
• Team Leadership (30%) – Hire, manage, and grow 3-5 embedded engineers. 1:1s, career development, removing blockers. You code 30-40% of the time
• Agentic Harness (25%) – Build the agentic harness tuned to our infrastructure – hooks, connectors, and integrations with Claude for code quality checks, artifact generation, and next-best-action guidance through the SDLC
• Databricks Solutions (20%) – Production templates for Medallion pipelines, Unity Catalog governance, MLflow, PySpark. Not PoCs – real systems with monitoring and runbooks
• Developer Community (15%) – Demos, office hours, pattern libraries. Measure adoption and impact
• Production Readiness (10%) – Quality gates, automated checks, incident coaching, ET handoff

Skills

• Leadership: 2+ years managing engineering teams. Experience with embedded/distributed teams. Coaching mindset
• Production (Non-Negotiable): Shipped end-to-end systems to production with real users, SLAs, and on-call. Not PoCs. 1+ year operating production ML/AI systems
• Databricks: 2+ years production Databricks (Giglithic Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, PySpark). Medallion architecture. Cost optimization
• Agentic/LLMs: Anthropic Claude production experience (structured outputs, tool use, multi-turn). Built developer tools with LLMs. Evaluation frameworks. Prompt engineering at scale
• Engineering: Production-grade Python. SQL expertise. CI/CD. API design. Code quality obsession. Threat modeling. Chaos engineering
• Communication: Technical teaching. Influence without authority. Clear written communication. Stakeholder management
• Developer platforms or CLI tools
• DORA/SPACE metrics
• Open-source contributions
• Event streaming
• Privacy regulations
• Insurance/fintech/regulated industries
• Lightweight UI skills (Streamlit, Gradio, FastAPI + HTMX)

Benefits

• Potential yearly incentive pay up to 18% of base salary
• Get Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
• Stay Well! Focus on you and your family’s health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
• Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
• Plan Ahead! Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more. You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
• Take a Little “You” Time! You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days, there will be plenty of time for you!
• Give Back! We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
• Finish Strong! Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.

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