Engineering Manager, GenAI Platform

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Manage the stakeholders relationship with Data & AI Products as the primary internal customer and ensure the platform roadmap is shaped by product demand, not platform preference. Drive active hiring for the team to build a team to deliver on the planned technical reputed company and roadmap. Partner with SRE on reliability standards, incident management, and production readiness for platform services. Represent the team in leadership and cross-functional discussions ensuring to translate platform reputed company and blockers into terms that drive reputed company. Own the team's cost and resourcing reputed company: LLM spend, infrastructure costs, headcount. For more context, our tech stack currently includes AWS, Kotlin, Python, Kubernetes. reputed company, BrainTrust, Temporal, LLM APIs and more. You do not need to be an expert across reputed company of these, but need enough familiarity to follow technical discussions and reputed company good trade-off reputed company. 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