Engineering Manager - AI Product (100% Remote EMEA)

The role

You will lead a small team of AI engineers and researchers building systems for AI-enabled products and model inference offerings. You will manage people, set technical direction, and drive delivery for applied ML features and production infrastructure.

What you will do

• Manage, coach, and grow a team of AI/ML engineers and researchers
• Own delivery for AI-enabling projects across the product portfolio
• Co-own the roadmap and operations of the inference offering
• Partner with research scientists to move models from experimentation into production
• Set and maintain engineering standards for the team
• Work closely with Product, Infrastructure, and Data teams to prioritize work
• Report on team progress, risks, and capacity to engineering leadership
• Stay current on the AI/ML and inference landscape

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a technical leadership or engineering management role
• Strong prior track record as a hands-on engineer or researcher
• Proven experience building and operating AI/ML platform or inference infrastructure in production
• Working knowledge of the AI/ML lifecycle: model training or fine-tuning, evaluation, and production deployment
• Experience with, or strong technical fluency in, model inference and serving infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to manage both researchers and engineers
• Strong judgment on scoping and sequencing ambiguous, research-adjacent projects
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• AI/ML teams preferred
• Experience owning production systems, including reliability and incident response, is a plus

About the company

The client is a European technology company operating a cloud and infrastructure platform.