Lead AI Engineer
McAfee
Lead AI Engineer
McAfee
Antivirus and cybersecurity software provider
About the Role:
Design a unified operational intelligence platform — an eCommerce Health view that combines system signals (latency, errors, integration and data-fl ow health) with commercial performance (conversion, checkout, auto renewal, feature adoption) in one trusted source of truth
Bring data from eCommerce, MarTech, observability, and operational datastores into an analytics-ready and AI-ready state through ETL/ELT pipelines, SQL, and data models, with automated quality validation —powering operational intelligence, KPIs, and cross-team reporting
Surface standardized engineering metrics across teams — delivery velocity(DORA-style), quality, security posture, incident trends, and service ownership
Ship AI agents that detect anomalies, surface critical issues with actionable context, and drive intelligent triage that accelerates root-cause analysis
Build AI productivity tools that help teams ship faster and operate more reliably — RCA assistance, intelligent search across telemetry, code and run book copilots
About You :
Experience:
8+ years in application development.
Designing, developing, and architecting large-scale production applications and distributed systems
Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered applications
Production RAG systems, AI agents, or LLM-integrated internal tools - including responsibility for prompt design, retrieval/grounding, evals, and operational reliability. Track record of identifying and spreading AI use cases across engineering teams is a strong plus
3+ years in data engineering and analysis
Building production data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and analytics platforms that turn raw operational and business data into actionable insights
AI & Engineering Operational Excellence (Must-Have):
Agentic AI and LLM application engineering - shipping production agents, RAG systems, and LLM-integrated tools with sound judgment on tool-use, guardrails, evals, and reliability
Efficiency-driven impact - track record of using AI to measurably reduce toil and accelerate incident response, translating operational needs into solutions teams adopt
Strong cross-functional partnership across Product, SRE, Security, and Architecture
Core Data Engineering Skills (Must-Have):
Expert SQL and Spark/PySpark for production pipelines across large-scale data sets (billions of rows)
Strong Python, ETL/ELT orchestration, and data modeling for analytics and operational telemetry
Modern data lake house platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, or similar), real-time and event-driven processing
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Pay Range
The anticipated compensation for this position is USD $135,910.00/Yr. - USD $223,285.00/Yr. depending on experience and qualifications.
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