Associate Manager, AI/NLP Engineering

Quick Facts

• Role: Associate Manager, AI/NLP Engineering

• Focus: Hands-on delivery of AI-powered data engineering workflows + small-team people management

Description

You will lead day-to-day work for a small team of data engineers while also delivering personally. The role requires operating in governed, agentic development environments (including guardrails like safe-zone scoping) and building scalable NLP pipelines that make unstructured content AI-ready. You will review junior work, assess feasibility with stakeholders, and negotiate realistic scope, trade-offs, and timelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage and direct day-to-day delivery of a small data engineering team

• Review and direct junior engineers’ output while maintaining hands-on delivery

• Work extensively in Claude Code and other governed AI development workflows with appropriate guardrails

• Build and operate large-scale NLP pipelines to ingest, parse, chunk, embed, and extract metadata/entities from millions of documents

• Extract insights via LLMs or NLP models from unstructured text

• Ramp quickly on unfamiliar codebases using documentation and skills files

• Use applied Python, SQL, and Snowflake fundamentals to evaluate feasibility and challenge proposals

• Coordinate with specialist stakeholders for sign-off and communicate trade-offs or interim delivery options

• Push back on unrealistic scope/timelines rather than overpromising

Requirements

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of AI-focused NLP experience building/operating pipelines at scale (millions of documents) for parsing, chunking, embedding, metadata/entity extraction, and insight extraction with LLMs/NLP models

• Hands-on Claude Code experience (core requirement) with governed AI workflows and ability to critically review agent-generated plans

• Strong applied Python, SQL, and Snowflake fundamentals to assess feasibility and challenge technical proposals

• People management experience directing and reviewing junior engineers alongside your own responsibilities

• Minimal travel (up to 10%)

Benefits

• Complete benefits package: 25 days holidays, 4 sick days, meal allowance, lifestyle/leisure benefit allowance, and annually reviewed company-wide closures (Unplug Day 19 Aug 2026; Global Shutdown 24 Dec–1 Jan inclusive)

• Volunteering day

• Individualized culture to explore new areas beyond your specialty and stay engaged with preferred work

• Professional, globally respected market research and advisory firm; initiative leading to results is rewarded