Senior Manager of AI, LeoLabs

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. personnel security clearance
• S., M.S in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or equivalent experience
• Proven experience (7+ years) as a Software Engineering Manager or AI Manager in a fast-paced software development environment
• Hands-on, up-to-date experience with agentic AI technology
• Extensive experience in building, rolling out, and maintaining cloud-based software services
• Experience deploying software services to US High Side networks
• Strong knowledge of software development and testing methodologies, best practices, and industry standards
• Experience working with large-scale distributed data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Spark)
• Solid understanding of Agile and DevOps principles
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to manage, lead, and mentor a team effectively
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Ability to work on-call outside of normal business hours during critical escalations

Desirable

• We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Manager of AI to join our team at LeoLabs. You will play a critical role in managing our new AI team
• This is a team of approximately 5 engineers and a key part of the broader, 30-person software engineering organization
• The AI team is responsible for customer-facing and internal AI and data engineering initiatives
• This includes agentic AI development, orbital event detection and characterization, and LeoLabs’ data lake
• The team leverages services built and maintained by other teams, including radar development and operations and catalog maintenance
• You will be responsible for providing leadership to a cross-functional team of AI/ML Engineers, Data Engineers, and Software Engineers. You will ensure that our AI/ML algorithms meet strict performance requirements, that our data lake meets internal and external needs, and that our organization is a leader in agentic AI
• Within 1 month, you’ll:
• Complete our onboarding program designed to get you up to speed on our business, vision, and team
• Gain an understanding about how your role fits into LeoLabs broader organization
• Take over leadership of our new AI team
• Within 3 months, you’ll:
• Own the AI teams’ OKRs and roadmap
• Be leading, mentoring, and guiding the AI team to achieve these objectives
• Be actively involved with the company’s AI and software roadmap planning
• Within 6 months, you’ll:
• Have achieved significant progress in achieving the team’s key roadmap goals
• Play a key role in driving excellence in our company’s AI/ML algorithm performance
• Be regularly collaborating with stakeholders to define our AI and Data Engineering
• Be successfully leading one of the most critical teams in the organization
• Within 12 months, you’ll:
• Lead your team to continuously deliver on the company’s AI needs
• Provide regular reports on AI team performance and results to the Senior and Executive Leadership Teams
• Promote a healthy culture of algorithm and software excellence throughout the organization