Manager, AI Engineering

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

As the Manager, AI Engineering, you will help Arcwood Environmental build and scale practical AI capabilities across the organization. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for leading a small team and coordinating onshore and offshore consulting resources to design, build, deploy, and support AI-enabled business solutions.

You will work closely with business and technology leaders to turn high-value opportunities into working solutions using Microsoft Azure and leading AI platforms such as Azure OpenAI and Anthropic Claude. You will also help establish practical AI development standards, grow the capabilities of internal resources, and encourage responsible adoption of AI throughout Arcwood.

This is an opportunity to join Arcwood during an important stage of growth and help build an emerging enterprise AI capability, team, and portfolio of solutions.

Essential Functions & Requirements

• Prioritizes health and safety by adhering to policies, processes, and maintaining safe practices at all times.
• Leads and develops a small team of AI and technical resources.
• Coordinates work across internal employees, onshore consultants, offshore resources, and technology partners.
• Serves as a hands-on technical leader, participating directly in solution design, prototyping, development, integration, testing, and deployment.
• Leads development of AI-enabled applications, generative AI solutions, agents, intelligent workflows, and business-process automation.
• Partners with business teams to translate business problems into practical AI solutions.
• Helps move successful AI concepts and prototypes into production applications.
• Works with Microsoft Azure cloud services and enterprise AI platforms to build secure and scalable solutions.
• Integrates AI models and services from multiple providers, including Azure OpenAI/OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and other appropriate platforms.
• Helps establish development standards, reusable patterns, documentation, monitoring, and support practices for AI solutions.
• Supports Arcwood's AI governance, security, data, and responsible AI requirements in partnership with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, legal, and other stakeholders.
• Coaches and upskills internal technology resources in modern AI technologies and development techniques.
• Helps employees and business teams understand how AI can be used effectively and responsibly.
• Manages consultants against defined deliverables, timelines, quality expectations, and knowledge-transfer objectives.
• Take on additional duties, as assigned, to support the team and organization.

Education

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, data science, analytics, AI/ML, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in software development, cloud engineering, data engineering, AI/ML, analytics, or related technology roles.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical projects, small teams, and consulting resources.
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying applications using Microsoft Azure cloud services.
• Experience developing solutions using generative AI and large language models.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI/OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or comparable commercial/open-source AI platforms.
• Experience integrating APIs, applications, data platforms, and AI services.
• Experience taking technology solutions from prototype through production and ongoing support.
• Experience managing consulting or offshore development resources preferred.
• Experience with AI agents, AI workflow automation, prompt engineering, or similar technologies preferred.
• Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, or related Microsoft AI technologies preferred.

Overview

About Arcwood

Every advancement—from the products we use to the medicines and technologies we depend on—creates waste that must be handled responsibly. For more than 50 years, Arcwood Environmental has helped organizations across the United States manage the byproducts of progress safely and thoughtfully. With deep expertise and innovative waste management technology across a growing nationwide footprint, Arcwood protects people, communities, and the environment through work that often happens behind the scenes.

Our Values

We move forward together, one team with a shared purpose, counting on each other every day. Our core values demonstrate how we work together to deliver value for our customers, putting them at the center of all we do:

• Lead with Safety: We uphold the highest safety and compliance standards to protect our teams, our customers and the communities that count on us.
• Solve Problems Creatively: We push for better – advancing technologies, processes, and ideas that protect human health and the environment.
• Own It Together: We are individually and collectively accountable for our work and our impact, knowing that progress is only achieved by working together – with our customers, and with each other.
• Deliver for Customers: We put customers at the center of all we do. When we live our values – lead with safety, solving problems creatively, and owning our work together – the result is clear: we deliver exceptional value for our customers.

We’ve reached a unique point as a company: big enough to deliver broad capability and consistent performance, while striving to be nimbler and more responsive to our customers’ evolving needs. Come join Arcwood and be part of our legacy of environmental leadership!

Compensation: 123900 to 185900 (USD)