Enterprise GenAI Team Manager

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise AI Team Manager to lead a growing team with 5 specialized professionals (business analyst/product owner, 2 application developers, 1 data scientist, and 1 system administrator) responsible for developing and managing enterprise AI capabilities within our FFRDC environment for now. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical leadership experience and expertise in technologies such as Cloud LLM platforms (Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock), prompt engineering, agentic AI systems, MCP servers, vector databases, data pipelines, and RAG architectures. In this role, you will be instrumental in scaling our internal AI tools - including a custom prompt engineering configuration platform (like ChatGPT) and a LLM Gateway - while fostering responsible AI adoption across the enterprise and ensuring compliance with cybersecurity requirements.

• Experience: Minimum of 5-7+ years of experience in a technical leadership or management role, with at least 2-3 years focused on AI/ML systems, LLM applications, or related technologies., o Strong experience with AI cloud platforms (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or similar) o Hands-on experience with prompt engineering techniques and frameworks o Proficiency with AI/ML frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar o Experience with vector databases and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures o Knowledge of agentic AI frameworks and multi-agent systems o Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) technology o Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and API gateway patterns o Experience with Python and modern application development practices o Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and their AI/ML services o Understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization

Hiring Range: $123,400 - $166,600

Disclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including-but not limited to-the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements. This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.

At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• MIT-funded pension
• Matching 401K
• Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
• Mentorship programs
• A range of work-life balance options
• ... and much more!

Please visit our Benefits page for more information. As an employee of MIT, you can also take advantage of other voluntary benefits, discounts and perks.

Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.