Technical Development Manager

Ericsson•Plano, TX

About The Position

Lead and grow a software development team to accelerate and scale effective AI usage across the product development lifecycle. Own the technical strategy, engineering practices, infrastructure, and governance needed to integrate AI-powered tooling and features into development workflows and products while improving developer productivity, product quality, and time-to-market.

Requirements

10+ years of professional software development experience and 3+ years managing engineering teams.
Hands-on experience integrating ML/AI into software products or developer tooling (model integration, inference services, MLOps).
Strong technical background in system architecture, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), APIs, and distributed systems.
Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, model hosting, inference scaling, and cost optimization.
Practical experience with CI/CD, automated testing, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and observability tooling.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders at multiple levels.
Excellent communication, prioritization, and organizational skills.
Prior experience as an engineering manager or technical lead in organizations adopting AI/LLMs.
Familiarity with privacy-safe data pipelines, differential privacy techniques, or federated learning concepts.
Experience with relevant programming languages and frameworks (Python, Java/TypeScript, PyTorch/TensorFlow, LangChain or similar).
Experience with feature flagging, A/B testing, and experimentation frameworks for model-backed features.
Strategic thinking and ability to translate business goals into technical roadmaps.
Strong mentoring and people-management skills; able to grow technical talent.
Change leadership — comfortable driving adoption and training across teams.
Pragmatic problem-solving and bias for measurable outcomes.
Commitment to responsible AI practices and ethical considerations.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred but not required).

Responsibilities

Define and execute the AI enablement roadmap for the engineering organization, aligned with product and business priorities.
Partner with product management, data science/ML teams, security, and architecture to identify high-impact AI opportunities and integrate them into product roadmaps.
Collaborate with security, DevOps, application teams and architecture to align infrastructure with business and compliance requirements
Evaluate and select AI platforms, models (including LLMs), third-party tools, and cloud services, lead procurement and vendor relationships where appropriate.
Implement best practices for safe, efficient, and reproducible model development and deployment (versioning, CI/CD for models, automated testing, monitoring, rollback).
Drive prompt engineering, prompt libraries, and patterns for reliable prompt-based features and developer tools.
Establish observability and monitoring for AI components (performance, latency, accuracy, drift, cost), and define alerting and remediation processes.
Own security, privacy, and compliance considerations for AI use (data handling, PII, access controls, model auditing).
Coach and mentor engineers on AI/ML engineering, prompt engineering, inference optimization, and integration patterns. Promote knowledge sharing and internal training programs.
Set and track success metrics (developer productivity, cycle time, error rates, model performance, cost), and report outcomes to senior leadership.
Drive adoption of AI-enhanced workflows among development teams through change management, documentation, demos, and support.
Manage hiring, performance reviews, career development, and team allocation.

Benefits

The salary range for this position is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, and the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.
Short-Term Variable Compensation Plan: Your pay also includes the opportunity for an annual bonus. Actual bonus payouts are based on performance of the business against the unit’s objectives, individual performance, and the individual bonus target. Certain eligibility and pro-ration rules apply.
Ericsson offers excellent health benefits including the choice of three medical plan options and a dental plan option that allow an employee to select the level of coverage that suits their needs. Employees will receive company credits in an amount equal to the cost that Ericsson pays toward the cost of their medical and dental premiums for themselves and eligible covered dependents.
The Ericsson US 401(k) Plan offers an automatic 3% company contribution and Ericsson match $1 for every $1 you put into the 401(k) Plan on the first 3% of your eligible pay, plus 50 cents on every $1 on the next 2% of eligible pay. When you contribute at least 5% of eligible pay, you are receiving Ericsson’s full matching contributions of 4%. Matching and company automatic contributions stop when your total eligible pay for the year reaches the IRS limits. Employees will also receive company credits in an amount equal to the cost of basic life insurance and basic accidental death and dismemberment coverage, as well as short-term and long-term disability coverage. Employees also have the option to participate in Ericsson’s Stock Purchase Plan.
New employees are provided a minimum of 15 days of accrued vacation, up to 3 personal days per year, 11 annual holidays, 8 hours of volunteer time, and 80 hours of sick time annually. Please note paid time off is pro-rated based on the employee’s start date. Furthermore, Ericsson provides up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.
Ericsson offers many other company-paid benefits such as financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, and recognition programs.

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