AI Engineering Manager

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Dec 2026

At MiniMed, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world.

About the Role

MiniMed is building a lean, high-leverage AI & Data Science team that designs, builds, and runs AI agents and models across the business. We are looking for a Manager, AI Engineering to lead our AI Agent Engineering team, including Principal AI Engineers, Senior AI Engineers, and contract engineers, and to turn a growing portfolio of AI use cases into reliable production systems.

This is a player-coach role. Most of your time goes to leading the team and its delivery. You also stay close to the work, spending about a quarter of your time reviewing designs and code, prototyping, and working on hard production problems, so your technical decisions reflect how the systems actually work. Principal AI Engineers set the team's technical standards; you make sure the team has the people, plan, and quality bar to deliver against them.

What success looks like

A strong, growing team. Engineers are hired well, developed, and retained, and Principal AI Engineers have room to lead technically.

Predictable delivery. AI use cases move from approved idea to production on a plan the business can rely on.

Reliable systems. What the team ships passes the readiness bar and holds up in production after handoff.

This is a hybrid position based in Atlanta, GA or Northridge, CA

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

Lead the team and its delivery (about 45%)

• Build and grow the team. Hire, onboard, and develop AI engineers; run performance and career conversations; give Principal AI Engineers the support and room to set the technical standard for the team.
• Run delivery. Turn the team's part of the AI roadmap into a sequenced, predictable plan; run sprint planning and backlog prioritization; manage capacity across concurrent initiatives; raise risks with leadership early.
• Work with product managers and the business. Partner with AI product managers, the enterprise transformation team, and business leaders to choose what to build, size the effort, and decide when a prototype is ready for engineering hardening.
• Represent the team. Report progress, risk, cost, and value to the Data Science & AI Lead and business stakeholders in clear, plain terms.

Own production readiness and standards (about 30%)

• Set the production-readiness bar. Define what an agent needs before it ships: evaluation evidence, guardrails, human-in-the-loop where required, fallback behavior, monitoring, and an incident plan. You own this release gate for everything the team builds.
• Own escalation and shape the handoff. Serve as the escalation point for production issues in the team's systems. As our platform and operations functions take shape, help define how capabilities move from build to steady-state operation, including ownership, service levels, and runbooks.
• Set development standards. With the Principal AI Engineers, define testing, documentation, versioning, and release practices, and make sure agents built by enablement engineers inside the business follow the same standards.
• Build in security and compliance. Partner with AI governance and security on access controls, data flows, and prompt-injection safeguards. Turn the safety, privacy, and compliance requirements of a medical-device company into engineering controls, including auditability, documentation, and evaluation records.

Stay hands-on (about

25%)

• Review designs and code. Review high-risk or cross-cutting work before it ships.
• Prototype selectively. Build proofs of concept and reference implementations on our internal AI platform (Databricks, LangGraph/LangSmith, and enterprise agent platforms) to de-risk new patterns, while critical-path delivery stays with the engineers who own it.
• Work the hard problems. Triage and debug production issues alongside the team when a system is failing and the stakes are high.
• Use AI in how the team works. Make AI coding and agent tools part of the team's standard workflow, and use them in your own management work.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field and 5+ years of software/ML engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineers (hiring, performance management, and career development).
• OR Advanced degree and 3+ years of the experience above, including 1+ years managing engineers.
• Delivered LLM-powered or agent systems to production against enterprise data and systems, including evaluation, guardrails, and monitoring.
• Hands-on architecture experience with LLM and agent systems, including retrieval (RAG), tool calling, and agent orchestration, with enough depth to review designs and code and debug production issues.
• Experience leading senior engineers and running agile delivery: sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and predictable releases.
• Clear communication with non-technical stakeholders, including turning ambiguous requests into buildable plans.

Nice to Have

Preferred experience

• Leading staff- or principal-level individual contributors.
• Managing a blended team of employees, contractors, and external delivery partners.
• Building or running MLOps/LLMOps practices: CI/CD for agents, evaluation gates, observability, cost management, and incident management.
• Working in a regulated industry (medical device, healthcare, financial services), including HIPAA, healthcare privacy, validation, and audit requirements.

Helpful familiarity

• Databricks, LangGraph, LangSmith, MLflow, vector databases, and managed retrieval.
• Taking traditional ML models to production.
• Forward-deployed or embedded engineering inside business functions.

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Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

MiniMed offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package

At MiniMed, we put people first. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values: We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every stage of your career and life.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$138,000.00 - $234,000.00

For roles located in California, Seattle WA, Washington DC, Boston MA, and New York City, the base salary range is $153,000 to $261,000 annually.

Actual compensation may vary based on factors including experience, education, certifications, skills, market conditions, internal equity, and geographic location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Short Term Incentive (STI).

At MiniMed, we are committed to supporting the well-being and financial security of our employees. Regular employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for a robust benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance, as well as access to a Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, life insurance, long-term disability leave, and a dependent daycare spending account. In addition, all regular employees enjoy incentive plans, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term disability coverage, paid time off and holidays, participation in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and access to our Employee Assistance Program. Eligible employees may also benefit from our Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement and Capital Accumulation Plan, subject to IRS minimum earnings requirements. Please note that “regular employees” refers to those who are not temporary staff, such as interns, and some benefits may not apply to employees in Puerto Rico.

For further details about our comprehensive benefits, we encourage you to visit the link below.

MiniMed Benefits Overview

About MiniMed

MiniMed is a full-stack insulin delivery company dedicated to supporting people living with diabetes through every step of their journey — when and how they need it. For more than 40 years, we’ve been committed to redefining what’s possible: intelligent dosing systems designed for real life, predictive insights that stay a step ahead, and always on support when it’s needed most. At the heart of everything we do is a simple Mission: to make every day a better day for people with diabetes.

Learn more about our business, and our mission here.

It is the policy of MiniMed to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, familial status, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, MiniMed will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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