Caylent is hiring an AI/ML Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Hire and build: Set the technical bar for ML roles on your team, lead or oversee technical assessments, and make hiring decisions you can stand behind. Build a team that raises the practice's overall standard
• Develop people: Run regular structured 1:1s, provide candid feedback at meaningful milestones, and actively invest in each person's growth — whether they are early in their career or highly experienced
• Manage performance: Recognize strong contributors and address performance gaps directly and early. Partner with HRBPs and the Director of AI/ML when situations require a structured path, and advocate for your team when they deserve it
• Stay close to staffing: Understand how your team is utilized across engagements, keep the staffing team informed of each person's skills evolution and preferences, and ensure people are placed in work that stretches them appropriately
• Lead ML assessments: Evaluate customer environments end-to-end — infrastructure, data pipelines, model lifecycle, and organizational readiness — and produce recommendations that drive executive decisions and open the door to the next engagement
• Shape architecture: Serve as the senior technical authority on engagements, setting architectural direction, ensuring technical quality across the team, and making the calls that matter when tradeoffs are hard
• Advise on ML operations: Help customers build ML systems they can actually own and sustain — translating MLOps, LLMOps, and production monitoring complexity into standards their engineering teams can execute and their leadership can act on
• Drive pre-sales: Partner with sales and solutions teams during scoping and proposal phases, contributing the technical depth needed to scope work accurately and give prospects confidence in Caylent's ability to deliver
• Lead engagements end-to-end: Drive architecture and solution design from kickoff through delivery — setting technical direction, unblocking the team on hard problems, and ensuring the work meets Caylent's quality standards
• Own the technical relationship: Depending on the engagement, you are either the primary client contact owning all architect-level outcomes, or the senior technical authority providing oversight across the team. The expectation is the same in both cases — you are the person the engagement depends on technically
• Raise the bar internally: Mentor engineers and architects through real work, contribute to technical interviews, and build reference architectures and accelerators that make the broader ML practice better

Tech Stack

SageMaker, SageMaker Pipelines, SageMaker Feature Store, SageMaker Model Registry, SageMaker Clarify, Bedrock (Agents, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, AgentCore, Model Evaluation), Rekognition, Comprehend, Transcribe, Textract, Translate, Personalize, Neptune, Kinesis Video Streams, Polly, Apache Spark / PySpark, Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, AWS Glue, Pinecone, pgvector, Amazon OpenSearch (vector), Weaviate, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, HuggingFace (Transformers, PEFT, TRL), LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, Ollama, MLflow, W&B, Airflow / MWAA (data orchestration), Dagster (asset-based pipelines), Kubeflow Pipelines, CI/CD, IaC (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform), Docker, Kubernetes, ML Governance (lineage, data contracts, audit), Responsible AI / Bias & Fairness, RAGAS, LLM-as-judge patterns, DeepEval, NeMo Guardrails, Constitutional AI patterns, structured output validation, Triton, vLLM, SGLang, Trainium, Inferentia, Quantization (GPTQ, AWQ, bitsandbytes), SageMaker Neo

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide) — Canada, United States, Latin America

Team

Reports to: Director of AI/ML

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• Generous holidays and flexible PTO
• Competitive phantom equity
• Paid for exams and certifications
• Peer bonus awards
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture

Compensation

• Base Salary Range: The expected base salary range for this position is CAD $152,000 - $234,000 per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications
• Additional Compensation Components: In addition to the base salary, the compensation package may include bonuses, commissions, equity, and other incentives. The specific components will vary depending on the role and individual and/or company performance

AI in Hiring

• We are unable to provide sponsorship for this position
• At Caylent, we are committed to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring practices. As part of our recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools or automated systems to assist with the screening and evaluation of applications to help match candidate qualifications with job requirements. These tools are designed to support — not replace — human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are always made by our trained recruitment professionals
• If an AI or automated tool is used during your application process, it will only be in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, and your information will be handled in a secure and confidential manner
• If you have any questions, please contact talent@caylent.com

Diversity and Inclusion

• Caylent is a place where everyone belongs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at Caylent
• We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics
• If you would like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at hr@caylent.com

Additional Information

• 100% remote work
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• No visa sponsorship available
• Applications may be screened using AI or automated systems in accordance with applicable laws
• Final hiring decisions are made by human professionals