Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. State Farm is a leading insurance company committed to helping people and investing in communities. They are seeking an AI Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers in developing agentic workflows and solutions on the Databricks platform, ensuring quality and innovation in production systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 3-5 embedded agentic engineers who work inside Product Oriented Delivery pods, helping engineers, analysts, and product owners ship twice as fast with twice the quality through agentic workflows
- You'll build the agentic harness tuned to our existing infrastructure, write code alongside your team, run the developer community, and ensure a steady stream of innovation projects make it to production on Databricks
- Team Leadership (30%) – Hire, manage, and grow 3-5 embedded engineers. 1:1s, career development, removing blockers. You code 30-40% of the time
- Agentic Harness (25%) – Build the agentic harness tuned to our infrastructure – hooks, connectors, and integrations with Claude for code quality checks, artifact generation, and next-best-action guidance through the SDLC
- Databricks Solutions (20%) – Production templates for Medallion pipelines, Unity Catalog governance, MLflow, PySpark. Not PoCs – real systems with monitoring and runbooks
- Developer Community (15%) – Demos, office hours, pattern libraries. Measure adoption and impact
- Production Readiness (10%) – Quality gates, automated checks, incident coaching, ET handoff
Skills
- Leadership: 2+ years managing engineering teams. Experience with embedded/distributed teams. Coaching mindset
- Production (Non-Negotiable): Shipped end-to-end systems to production with real users, SLAs, and on-call. Not PoCs. 1+ year operating production ML/AI systems
- Databricks: 2+ years production Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, PySpark). Medallion architecture. Cost optimization
- Agentic/LLMs: Anthropic Claude production experience (structured outputs, tool use, multi-turn). Built developer tools with LLMs. Evaluation frameworks. Prompt engineering at scale
- Engineering: Production-grade Python. SQL expertise. CI/CD. API design. Code quality obsession. Threat modeling. Chaos engineering
- Communication: Technical teaching. Influence without authority. Clear written communication. Stakeholder management
- Developer platforms or CLI tools
- DORA/SPACE metrics
- Open-source contributions
- Event streaming
- Privacy regulations
- Insurance/fintech/regulated industries
- Lightweight UI skills (Streamlit, Gradio, FastAPI + HTMX)
Benefits
- Potential yearly incentive pay up to 18% of base salary
- You are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
- State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan.
- All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
- Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
- Benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more.
- You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
- Generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off.
- Opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days.
- Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
- Free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.
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