AI Engineering Manager

Anju Software AI Engineering Manager

The AI Engineering Manager leads a cross-functional team (Development & QA) and owns technical architecture, delivery outcomes, AI-enabled system design and driving an AI first culture among your team. This role is both strategic and hands-on. It requires strong expertise in modern AI frameworks, applied AI architectures, and scalable system design. The manager is accountable for delivering stable, secure, AI-powered capabilities — not just managing execution.

Core Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

•Own product architecture, including AI/LLM-integrated components

•Design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems

•Lead decisions involving:

oLLM integration (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, etc.)

oRAG architectures and vector databases

oAI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex)

•Ensure system reliability, observability, and cost efficiency

•Establish AI governance and safe usage practices

AI Framework & Methodology Expertise

•Apply modern AI methodologies, including:

oRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

oPrompt engineering and evaluation

oAI output validation and guardrails

oHuman-in-the-loop workflows

oModel monitoring and performance evaluation

•Drive experimentation, A/B testing, and telemetry-based decision making

Team Leadership

•Lead and mentor developers and QA engineers

•Raise AI literacy across the team

•Establish AI-native coding and review standards

•Balance speed, quality, and architectural integrity

Delivery & Outcome Ownership

•Own predictable, high-quality releases

•Ensure AI features are measurable, validated, and production-ready

•Act as technical escalation point

•Drive cross-team alignment with Product, Data, and DevOps

AI-Driven Engineering Excellence

•Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve velocity

•Optimize AI cost-performance tradeoffs

•Embed automation into testing and CI/CD pipelines

Qualifications

• 7+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years in technical leadership
• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI-enabled systems
• Strong knowledge of:
• LLM integration and prompt design
• RAG architectures and vector search
• AI orchestration frameworks
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems

Preferred

• Experience in regulated industries
• AI governance and compliance knowledge
• Model lifecycle management and monitoring tools

About Anju Software

Anju Software delivers end-to-end solutions for the life sciences industry, supporting clinical trials, medical affairs, and scientific data management with precision, compliance, and operational rigor. Our products help pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies bring therapies to market faster and more efficiently.

Anju is part of Valsoft Corporation, a global acquirer and operator of vertical market software businesses. Valsoft invests with a long-term mindset, empowering each company to operate autonomously while benefiting from shared capital and operational expertise.

We are entering a new phase of growth, focused on embedding AI deeply into our systems and workflows. We are excited to add talent who will help lead our transformation into a truly agentic, automation-driven organization that redefines how work gets done in life sciences.