REMOTE - AI Engineering Manager (Databricks)

State Farm•Dunwoody, GA

12h•Remote

About The Position

State Farm is seeking an AI Engineering Manager to lead a team of 3-5 embedded agentic engineers. These engineers work within Product Oriented Delivery pods to help ship products faster and with higher quality through agentic workflows. The manager will be responsible for building the agentic harness tuned to existing infrastructure, writing code, running the developer community, and driving innovation projects to production on Databricks. The role emphasizes a player-coach model, where leaders build alongside their team, and a focus on measurable outcomes (2x quality, 2x speed). The company culture values kindness, objective debate, an agentic-first approach, shipping to production, and blameless accountability.

Requirements

2+ years managing engineering teams.
Experience with embedded/distributed teams.
Coaching mindset.
Shipped end-to-end systems to production with real users, SLAs, and on-call responsibilities (not PoCs).
1+ year operating production ML/AI systems.
2+ years production Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, PySpark).
Experience with Medallion architecture.
Experience with Databricks cost optimization.
Anthropic Claude production experience (structured outputs, tool use, multi-turn).
Experience building developer tools with LLMs.
Experience with LLM evaluation frameworks.
Experience with prompt engineering at scale.
Production-grade Python.
SQL expertise.
CI/CD experience.
API design experience.
Obsession with code quality.
Threat modeling experience.
Chaos engineering experience.
Technical teaching skills.
Ability to influence without authority.
Clear written communication skills.
Stakeholder management skills.
Eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization.

Nice To Haves

Developer platforms or CLI tools.
DORA/SPACE metrics.
Open-source contributions.
Event streaming.
Experience with privacy regulations.
Experience in insurance/fintech/regulated industries.
Lightweight UI skills (Streamlit, Gradio, FastAPI + HTMX).

Responsibilities

Lead a team of 3-5 embedded agentic engineers.
Build the agentic harness tuned to our infrastructure, including hooks, connectors, and integrations with Claude for code quality checks, artifact generation, and next-best-action guidance.
Develop production templates for Databricks solutions such as Medallion pipelines, Unity Catalog governance, MLflow, and PySpark, ensuring real systems with monitoring and runbooks.
Foster the developer community through demos, office hours, and pattern libraries, measuring adoption and impact.
Ensure production readiness through quality gates, automated checks, incident coaching, and effective handoffs.
Hire, manage, and grow the engineering team, including conducting 1:1s and supporting career development.
Write code alongside the team, contributing 30-40% of the time.
Ensure a steady stream of innovation projects make it to production.

Benefits

Compensation based on a standard 38:45-hour work week.
Potential starting salary range: $151,000 - $247,000.
Potential yearly incentive pay up to 18% of base salary.
Annual raise and bonus.
Robust health and wellbeing programs.
State Farm pays most of the healthcare premium.
Multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan.
100% coverage for in-network preventative care.
Access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals.
Educational benefits including industry-leading training programs.
Top-notch tuition assistance programs.
Employee resource groups.
Mentoring programs.
Fertility/IVF/adoption assistance.
College coaching.
National discount programs.
Interactive monthly financial workshops.
Free financial coaching.
Ability to start a savings account or consider financing through State Farm Federal Credit Union.
Generous time off policies.
Opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days of PTO annually.
Parental leave.
Paid holidays.
Celebration day.
Life leave (40 hours/year).
Bereavement leave.
Community service/education support days.
Matching Gift Program.
Good Neighbor Grant Program.
Employee Assistance Fund.
Free financial advisors for retirement planning.
401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of salary.