Engineering Manager - AI Platform
Core
Lead and grow a team of engineers building Blend's intelligent origination products, specifically AI agents that automate document review, compliance checking, and borrower follow-ups during loan origination.
Role type
Engineering Manager (AI Platform)
Builds
Agentic features for loan origination (Blend Autopilot) using modern AI tooling
Domain
Fintech / AI / Loan Origination
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Python (3.11+, async/await, asyncio, Pydantic v2), hiring and mentoring engineers, architectural decision-making, end-to-end development lifecycle management, global team alignment, code reviews, AI-forward engineering culture advocacy, foundation-model fluency (Google, Anthropic, OpenAI), prompt engineering and agent context management, agent-assisted development workflows, RAG with vector databases, eval-driven development of LLM features, PII/regulated-data sensibility, cloud and container ops (AWS, Kubernetes)
Preferred skills
Mortgage/loan-origination domain knowledge, multi-provider abstractions (LiteLLM), specific agent dev kits (ADK, DSPy, LangGraph), durable workflow engines (Temporal, Airflow, Step Functions), multimodal retrieval (ColPali, FAISS), eval frameworks (Braintrust, LangSmith, MLflow), redaction tooling (Presidio), modern Python tooling (uv, ruff, pytest-asyncio)
Technologies
Python, AWS (EKS, RDS, S3), Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Qdrant, Pinecone, sentence-transformers, ColPali, FAISS, Braintrust, LangSmith, MLflow, Presidio, uv, ruff, pytest-asyncio, LiteLLM, Temporal, Airflow, Step Functions, LangGraph, DSPy, ADK
Responsibilities
Guide architectural decisions for scalable solutions; hire, mentor, and develop high-performing engineers; collaborate with product managers and design teams; drive the end-to-end development lifecycle; connect global engineering teams; conduct code reviews and advocate for best practices; champion an AI-forward engineering culture
Seniority
Manager, hands-on leadership