NBCUniversal is hiring a Manager, Software Engineering, AI CORE to lead a high-impact team driving AI innovation across the company. You will focus on building scalable AI infrastructure, enabling access to cutting-edge foundation models, and advancing AI education for engineers. You will manage Agile ceremonies, align team deliverables with strategic objectives, and collaborate with senior leadership to shape NBCUniversal’s AI future.
What You'll Do
- Manage Agile Scrum ceremonies, align team deliverables with strategic objectives, and collaborate with senior leadership to prioritize AI services.
- Lead a team dedicated to elevating the developer experience by delivering the infrastructure and knowledge required to create next-generation AI-powered applications and services.
- Shape strategies for edge-first architectures, AI-driven development workflows, and data-centric insights.
- Deliver high-quality foundation models to engineering groups and support diverse use cases, ensuring solutions scale to meet customer needs.
- Partner with strategic vendors to influence feature development and build future-ready ecosystems that accelerate software delivery.
- Collaborate with the NBCUniversal O&T API Gateway team to standardize operations and deliver best-in-class services.
- Drive operational excellence, foster a culture of adaptability, and influence SVP-level decisions.
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of professional experience leading technical engineering teams and projects.
- Understanding of the product, engineering, and test roles & responsibilities that make up a software delivery team.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and strong familiarity navigating code bases.
- Proven experience facilitating Agile Scrum ceremonies and providing clear, actionable updates to leadership.
- Experience with cloud-native development (Azure, AWS, GCP), scrum processes, security-by-design, and modern DevOps practices.
- Sharp eye for quality team contribution and ability to assess team member work product.
- Experience with leading projects in highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary development teams.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively connect with both business and technical teams.
- Familiarity with integrating foundation models and conversational AI technologies into applications.
- Passionate about problem-solving and working with engineering and non-engineering partners.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into languages that audiences with various technical backgrounds can understand.
- Results oriented, high energy, and self-motivated.
- Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management.
Nice to Have
- Software engineering experience as a Technical Product Manager, Engineer, or Manager.
- B.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred or equivalent experience.
- Able to communicate effectively in a diverse team of varying skillsets and proficiencies.
- Experience working in large, multifaceted, and matrixed organizations.
- Collaborative team player accustomed to working within and across groups.
- Organized and detail-oriented with ability to manage time effectively.
- Ability to influence internal and external team members without direct reporting authority.
- Keep up to date with emerging platforms & the latest technology trends.
- Strong character exhibiting company core values: Integrity, Creativity, Teamwork, Pioneering Spirit, Ownership.
- Experience with one or more of the following development tools: Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GitHub Actions.
- Strong understanding of backend technologies (e.g., Python) and RESTful services, with practical experience integrating APIs.
- Experience in designing and deploying serverless architectures on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience in software license management, tracking & reporting and owning vendor negotiations.
Technical Stack
- RESTful APIs, Web applications, Serverless architectures
- AWS, Azure, GCP
- Python
- Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GitHub Actions
Team & Environment
Part of the Prism organization within NBCUniversal’s Operations and Technology group.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: USD140,000 - USD180,000 yearly
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- A variety of other discounts and perks
Work Mode
This position is remote.
NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
